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      The violence of frenzy
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      The sound of roots
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      Summer’s lease
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      Deep Roots
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      Hope and Expectation
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      No Trespassing
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    • Volume 1
      • 0.1 Intro
      • 1.1 Margins
      • 1.2 Living with the Seasons
      • 1.3 Thriftiness
      • 1.4 Noise and Silence
      • 1.5 Bodies
      • 1.6 Transportation
      • 1.7 Waterways
      • 1.8 My Economy
      • 1.9 Sharing Food
      • 1.10 Coming and Going
    • 2.1 Labor
    • 2.2 Bridges
    • 2.3 Shops & Stores
    • 2.4 The Darkest Night
    • 2.5 Sabbath
    • 2.6 Local Government
    • 2.7 Solastalgia
    • 2.8 Borders & Boundaries
    • 2.9 Play

David Stewart

David Stewart is a man who lives in Three Rivers, Michigan. He wakes up smiling everyday.

Bridge over the Illinois
EssayOctober 17, 2016

Bridge over the Illinois

By David Stewart

I’m driving on highway 29 in rural Illinois. This is the Midwest. When you travel here, you drive through corn and soybean fields. You…

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Less is more
EtceteraJune 30, 2016

Less is more

By David Stewart

When I watch Naturali Tea—one of the final nominees in the 2016 Real Food Films competition—its lush greenery and charming pastoral vistas give rise…

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About Topology

Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

Contributors

  • Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • Deborah Haak
  • Henry Bakker
  • Elisabeth Wenger
  • Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • S. Alexandra Harper
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  • the daily asterisk
  • Marjorie Maddox
  • Alex Joyner
  • Katie Hoogendam
  • Bethany Beachum
  • Alex Quick
  • Karissa Knox Sorrell
  • William Overbeeke
  • Amy Carpenter-Leugs
  • Laura Menze
  • Naomi Wenger
  • Tom Springer
  • Uche Ogbuji
  • Brett Beasley
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  • Deborah Lewis
  • Carol Stephen
  • Kathryn T. Jones
  • Raechelle Kennedy
  • Aline Lindemann
  • Bill Boerman-Cornell
  • Scott Peterson
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
  • Brother Abraham Newsom
  • Robert Andy Coombs
  • Nora Kirkham
  • Neil E. Das
  • Gail Heffner
  • Elisabeth McClanahan
  • Luke Johnston
  • John Pierce
  • Lisa Witz
  • Alek Frost
  • Ian Randall Wilson
  • Sylvia Keesmaat
  • Chris Bullard
  • Denise Frame Harlan
  • Katie Karnehm-Esh
  • A. Non
  • Jeff Gundy
  • Monica Sharman
  • Randy Smit
  • J.C. Elkin
  • Christine Darragh
  • David Stewart
  • John Davis Jr.
  • Ingrid Lochamire
  • Amy Nemecek
  • Joy Riggs
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
  • Stephanie Nikolopoulos
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Kristina England
  • Barbara Ruth
  • Hardeep Sabharwal
  • Grant Elgersma
  • Lynne S. Viti
  • Jennifer Monroe
  • Kendra Stanton Lee
  • Christopher Smit
  • Jacqueline Ristola
  • Robert Stout
  • Travis Poling
  • Zach Bartz
  • Julie Keefer
  • L. L. Barkat
  • Larry Kamphausen
  • Jeff Santosuosso
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Michael Knowles
  • Amie Adams
  • Gail Walters
  • Sara Sterley
  • Rick Kempa
  • Jennifer Crow
  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Matt Prater
  • Thomas Swann
  • Amy Oestreicher
  • Devon Balwit
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Jacob Miller
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Amanda Hiland
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Rachel Marie Stone
  • Donald Illich
  • Kathy Fenton-Miller
  • Nate Maxson
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Valerie Bacharach
  • Larry-Michael Hackenberg
  • Jill McDonough
  • Christopher Smith
  • Heather Hutchison
  • Eileen R. Kinch
  • Lynn White
  • Daniel Silliman
  • Jacque Rowe Fields
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Andy Rogers
  • Sam Gesch
  • Jennifer Hernandez
  • Lindsy Wallace
  • June Mears Driedger
  • Ched Myers
  • Laura Fabrycky
  • Jennifer Martelli
  • Lorraine Caputo
  • Amelia Rhodes
  • Daniel Roy Connelly
  • Katie Reich
  • Nina Bannett
  • Lauren Wayne
  • Nicole Carlin
  • Danielle Germaine
  • Marylu Dykstra
  • Mary Ann Honaker
  • Hannah Thyberg
  • Jeff Burt
  • Michael Penny
  • Catherine Woodiwiss
  • Claire Ibarra
  • Gwen DiPietro
  • Matthew Deames
  • Kenneth Arthur
  • Shawndra Miller
  • Cat Dixon
  • Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Alexa Shearer
  • Mike Wilson
  • Ruth Asher
  • Kierstan Barbre
  • Lea Page
  • Nathan Van Hoff
  • Geneva Langeland
  • Tamra Carraher
  • Samuel J. Fox
  • Wm. Anthony Connolly
  • Clinton Inman
  • Heidi Fettig Parton
  • Brandon Marlon
  • Celine B. Roque
  • Elisavietta Ritchie
  • Joyce H. Munro
  • Joel Schueler
  • Sophie Blanc
  • Gary Guthrie
  • Jerry Berrigan
  • Nate Al Attas-Bradford
  • Vincent A. Cellucci
  • Denise Vredevoogd
  • Erica Schemper
  • Debra Dieppa
  • Kurt Armstrong
  • Aaron Nell
  • Erin O'Connor-Garcia
  • Stefanie Möser Zitö
  • Ben Brazil
  • Nathaniel Harper-Brees
  • Amy Hetletvedt
  • Griffin Paul Jackson
  • Kate Bowman-Johnston
  • Ann Klotz
  • Jim Schmotzer
  • John Yohe
  • Katie Rendon Kahn
  • Chris Fuller
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
  • Mike Finley
  • Katie Houston
  • Mark Andrew Heathcote
  • Matthew Landrum
  • Emily Ulmer
  • Jeremy Huggins
  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • Rob Testing

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