Relocation: The Building of the Dyke Levee
byAgain, I ask the young, bright in muscles and orange hats as they stack concrete and lean away from the river to plant their…
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The Labourers
byFraser River, British Columbia, Canada (June 2016) I was out today with the camera down along one of the winding arms in the delta…
River Stone Travels
byTucson, Arizona (2015) These stones line the bottom of an Arizona riverbed, dry for most of the year. During the rainy season and after…
Paddling through history
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Matthew Deames explores the benefits of kayaking…
On the San Saba
byOld timers tell of baptisms in the living water. Cascades of souls, clad full in white, down the muddy banks lives made right. We…
Overflowing Banks
byGrand Rapids, Michigan (2013) This photograph was taken during a 100-year flood that occurred in Grand Rapids, Michigan in April of 2013. Heavy rainstorms…
Holy days
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Karissa Knox Sorrell recalls the holiness of…
The River Hymn
byOn days when the sky is an overturned urn, ash-grey clouds lingering like a tooth ache, learn the names of the dead as a…
The ways of water
byWe sight the mornings softly Take to them easy The scent of the wood and coffee Our cup is filling Outside the river flows…
East Fork, Whitewater River
byThe water here flows smooth and quickly, half of the river’s drop happening in this county alone. Past Test Road, at the bend where…