Summer’s lease
byEditor’s Note: We at Topology are currently on our annual publishing break. In the meantime, enjoy this bonus essay on the July theme of…
summer
Loon egg: Memory of a place
by“You are not welcome at the house because you abandoned the people who lived there.” There were a bunch of other words, but these…
A Michigan Saturday is good for the soul
byEditor’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…
Baboon bride
byThe summer I turned 16 was the summer of Sgt. Pepper, and I took a job as a zoo guide at Jungle Larry’s Safari…
Clifton Park
byI demanded that my mother take me back to the park with three swimming pools. Summer was so much hotter then. At night fans cooled us…
Home/Work
byThree Rivers, Michigan (September 2015) Late afternoon sunlight slanted across the carpet and ran up the worn wood of the desk. I could feel…
Summer
byMixed media with fiber, textile, hand-stitched batik cloth, beads, hand-made or found objects.
The Garden in Late Summer
byLocation: Godfrey, Illinois
Gathering clouds
byFor several years, my 90-year-old mother has dreaded the approach of winter. She lives in wool sweaters, pockets stuffed with tissues. She wraps in…