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      • 0.1 Intro
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      • 1.3 Thriftiness
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      • 1.6 Transportation
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      • 1.9 Sharing Food
      • 1.10 Coming and Going
    • 2.1 Labor
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    • 2.4 The Darkest Night
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    • 2.9 Play

John Pierce

John Pierce is a teacher from the Texas Hill Country. Some of his recent work has appeared in Right Hand Pointing, Valley Voices, and Ometeca.

PoetryApril 12, 2016

On the San Saba

By John Pierce

Old timers tell of baptisms in the living water. Cascades of souls, clad full in white, down the muddy banks lives made right. We…

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PoetryMarch 8, 2016

An Ode to My Thin-Treaded Tires

By John Pierce

Our budget has now accounted for your replacement for one full year. In which I have neglected, in flat out utterness, to call a…

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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

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  • Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma
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  • the daily asterisk
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  • Katie Hoogendam
  • Karissa Knox Sorrell
  • Alex Quick
  • William Overbeeke
  • Amy Carpenter-Leugs
  • Laura Menze
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  • Tom Springer
  • Brett Beasley
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  • Carol Stephen
  • Aline Lindemann
  • Kathryn T. Jones
  • Raechelle Kennedy
  • Bill Boerman-Cornell
  • Scott Peterson
  • Uche Ogbuji
  • Brother Abraham Newsom
  • Robert Andy Coombs
  • Lisa Witz
  • Elisabeth McClanahan
  • Neil E. Das
  • Gail Heffner
  • Alek Frost
  • Luke Johnston
  • Ian Randall Wilson
  • John Pierce
  • Sylvia Keesmaat
  • Chris Bullard
  • Katie Karnehm-Esh
  • Denise Frame Harlan
  • A. Non
  • Randy Smit
  • Jeff Gundy
  • J.C. Elkin
  • Monica Sharman
  • Christine Darragh
  • Joy Riggs
  • Amy Nemecek
  • David Stewart
  • Ingrid Lochamire
  • John Davis Jr.
  • Nora Kirkham
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
  • Rick Kempa
  • Larry Kamphausen
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  • Sara Sterley
  • Julie Keefer
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  • Devon Balwit
  • Travis Poling
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  • Jeff Santosuosso
  • Valerie Bacharach
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • Thomas Swann
  • Gail Walters
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Matt Prater
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Daniel Silliman
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Deborah Bowen
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  • Laura Fabrycky
  • Lynn White
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  • Donald Illich
  • Rachel Marie Stone
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  • Nate Maxson
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  • Denise Vredevoogd
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  • Jerry Berrigan
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  • Aaron Nell
  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Katie Rendon Kahn
  • Ben Brazil
  • Hardeep Sabharwal
  • Mike Finley
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  • Grant Elgersma
  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
  • Kristina England
  • Emily Ulmer
  • Zach Bartz
  • L. L. Barkat
  • Jennifer Monroe
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
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  • Matthew Landrum
  • Amie Adams
  • Barbara Ruth
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Jacqueline Ristola
  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Michael Knowles
  • Robert Stout
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
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