Golden
byMercer County, Pennsylvania (July 2015) It’s funny: this scene by a pond, suffused with golden brilliance, wasn’t silent but full of cricket and cicada…
Distract humanity
by the daily asteriskSoon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase…
Sense memory
by Kathryn T. JonesEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Kathryn T. Jones recalls stories from her…
Sheer silence
by the daily asteriskHe said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a…
Stargazers
by Tom SpringerIf it hadn’t been for a dog that refused to sleep in the house, I might have never given the stars a second glance….
Words stand between
by the daily asteriskWords stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world…
your sun’s what they come for/ when they come for you
by Vincent A. Celluccii. I silence sun only in the desert seams increase the difference degrees between night and day horizons shrivel squinting oasis our symbols sand…
Silence itself
by the daily asteriskThe true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one…
Walking after midnight
by Brother Abraham NewsomThis essay was previously published in the Summer 2001 Abbey Letter, no. 206 (Saint Gregory’s Abbey, Three Rivers, Michigan). Shortly after I joined the…
Silent guns of love
by the daily asteriskAnd the road is coming to its end Now the damned have no time to make amends No purse of token fortune stands in…