Masthead Logo Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2010 How We Were Not Sparrows Sara Marie Richardson Perez Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, and the Rhetoric and Composition Commons Recommended Citation Perez, Sara Marie Richardson, "How We Were Not Sparrows" (2010). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 11552. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/11552 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 Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. How we were not sparrows by Sara Marie Richardson Perez A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF FINE ARTS Major: Creative Writing and Environment Program of Study Committee: Debra Marquart: Major Professor David Zimmerman Kathleen Hickok Jane Vallier Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2010 Copyright © Sara Marie Richardson Perez, 2010. All rights reserved. 1 We began as a cluster of girls, both impossibly still and continuously making small motions, like sparrows, sit cross legged, the tips of our knees touching, small moist hands clenching other hands until they were somehow collective, delicate tilt of our chins as we listen, the attention paid to one girl’s new bracelet, glances at our own empty wrists, picking at the bit of pink polish on a pinky fingernail the size of a ladybug with the thumb of the other hand.