Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1994 Flying lessons Christine Diane Lewinski Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Lewinski, Christine Diane, "Flying lessons" (1994). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 16200. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/16200 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Flying lessons by Christine Diane Lewinski A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Department: English ~ K_~~_. "c~~l';",h (Creative Writing) Signatures have been redacted for privacy __ .. __ _ versity Ames, Iowa 1994 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS You're Unemployed After the Buyout, And I Think of the Alhambra 1 Airport Concourse at Night 2 Goldilocks and the Baby Bear Lover 3 My Friend Leaves Unburdened of Her News 4 Nuremburg, 1992: Watershed and Breakwaters 5 Foreign and Domestic 7 Near Worpswede, Germany After the Military Drawdown 20 The Man in My Dream Tells Me How He Lost His Three Kids 21 Jewish Cowboy 23 Bug-Be-Gone 24 Fingering the Outcrop 40 November in the Not Arriving 41 Etude on The Suburb 42 Flying Lessons 44 Serving the Divorce: Captive in Pompei 65 Dreaming the Train Again 66 Heirlooms 67 The Aqua Meridian 69 Vogelfreund 70 1 You're Unemployed After the Buyout, And I Think of the Alhambra The Moors knew the end was close when they refashioned their palace, using ordinary plaster.