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    • The violence of frenzy
      The violence of frenzy
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      The sound of roots
    • Summer’s lease
      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

Luke Johnston

Since graduating with a humanities degree from Cornerstone University, Luke continues to pursue writing in his free time. He self-describes as the product of pseudo-rural life, yet living in his hometown of Hudsonville, Michigan (aka "Michigan’s Salad Bowl"). It's the sweet smell of spreading manure every spring in the muck fields - which are strangely adjacent to this this suburbia - that tunes him to the beauty of the urban/rural exchange happening in the greater Grand Rapids area. You'll find him in one of two places: in his garden or out fishing.

Skamani Season
PoetryApril 5, 2017

Skamani Season

By Luke Johnston

sand pipers pluck the eyes of junk shad twitching in mesh nets strewn over the quay as big blue men string poles along the…

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Blueberry Bruce
PoetryJune 7, 2016

Blueberry Bruce

By Luke Johnston

Planted a sandy pile far back past the swing-set in full sun over top that dead dog buried there. And as worms ribbon in…

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

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