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      • 0.1 Intro
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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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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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  • the daily asterisk
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  • Katie Hoogendam
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  • Karissa Knox Sorrell
  • William Overbeeke
  • Amy Carpenter-Leugs
  • Laura Menze
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  • Tom Springer
  • Brett Beasley
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  • Carol Stephen
  • Kathryn T. Jones
  • Aline Lindemann
  • Raechelle Kennedy
  • Bill Boerman-Cornell
  • Scott Peterson
  • Uche Ogbuji
  • Brother Abraham Newsom
  • Lisa Witz
  • Elisabeth McClanahan
  • Robert Andy Coombs
  • 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
  • Monica Sharman
  • J.C. Elkin
  • Christine Darragh
  • David Stewart
  • Amy Nemecek
  • Joy Riggs
  • John Davis Jr.
  • Ingrid Lochamire
  • Nora Kirkham
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
  • Julie Keefer
  • Christopher Smit
  • Lynne S. Viti
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  • Larry Kamphausen
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  • Amanda Hiland
  • Travis Poling
  • Devon Balwit
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  • Jennifer Crow
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  • Gail Walters
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • Daniel Silliman
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Matt Prater
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Deborah Bowen
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  • Laura Fabrycky
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Lynn White
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  • Jill McDonough
  • Rachel Marie Stone
  • Donald Illich
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  • Nate Maxson
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  • Cat Dixon
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  • Vincent A. Cellucci
  • Denise Vredevoogd
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  • Aaron Nell
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  • Hardeep Sabharwal
  • Katie Rendon Kahn
  • Ben Brazil
  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Mike Finley
  • Grant Elgersma
  • Emily Ulmer
  • Jim Schmotzer
  • Kristina England
  • Zach Bartz
  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
  • L. L. Barkat
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
  • Katie Houston
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  • Barbara Ruth
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  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Jacqueline Ristola
  • Robert Stout
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Michael Knowles
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