Hard at play
It’s a Sunday morning in late spring. Our cat lounges in the sun by the open window, where the joyous prelude of bird chatter…
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Rocky River Series: Bridge
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) One of the reasons I love living in downtown Three Rivers is that I get to experience the pleasures…
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Dock elongates winter cold, overwrought with broken shells, white and purple fragments, wood cake of seagull feathers, droppings. Lampposts extend to the clouds, like…
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Washington, D.C. A doe and fawn in our driveway— Two fox cubs play in the yard. A pair of red-tailed hawks patrol the ravine…
Read MoreThe Catalogue of Living Here
1. The maple measures out the space its buds will need for leaf and flowers pick colours from the charts laid out in the…
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Loon egg: Memory of a place
“You are not welcome at the house because you abandoned the people who lived there.” There were a bunch of other words, but these…
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Nature walk on concrete
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2004, Amy Carpenter-Leugs reflects on the notion…
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Without showing, the time is wearing out. Frail paper flowers bloom and wither and time is in the heart of us all. Frail paper…
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A Michigan Saturday is good for the soul
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Hannah Thyberg recalls a day…
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Arbor awe
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2009, Josh Maclvor-Anderson shares a tale…
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