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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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  • Bethany Beachum
  • 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
  • Lisa Witz
  • Robert Andy Coombs
  • 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
  • Jeff Gundy
  • Randy Smit
  • J.C. Elkin
  • Monica Sharman
  • Christine Darragh
  • David Stewart
  • Amy Nemecek
  • Joy Riggs
  • Ingrid Lochamire
  • John Davis Jr.
  • Nora Kirkham
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
  • Rick Kempa
  • Kendra Stanton Lee
  • Julie Keefer
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  • Lynne S. Viti
  • Larry Kamphausen
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  • Christopher Smit
  • Devon Balwit
  • Travis Poling
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  • Valerie Bacharach
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  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • Gail Walters
  • Matt Prater
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Daniel Silliman
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Amy Oestreicher
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Laura Fabrycky
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Lynn White
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  • Rachel Marie Stone
  • Jill McDonough
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  • Heather Hutchison
  • Ched Myers
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  • Joel Schueler
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  • Mark Andrew Heathcote
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  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Hardeep Sabharwal
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  • Katie Rendon Kahn
  • Mike Finley
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  • Grant Elgersma
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
  • Emily Ulmer
  • Zach Bartz
  • Kristina England
  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • L. L. Barkat
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
  • Jennifer Monroe
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  • Amie Adams
  • Matthew Landrum
  • Barbara Ruth
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Jacqueline Ristola
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Robert Stout
  • Michael Knowles
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