Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1995 Bodies of water Clifton Brashear Johnson Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Johnson, Clifton Brashear, "Bodies of water " (1995). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 7912. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/7912 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]. Bodies of water by Clifton Brashear Johnson A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Department: English Major: English Signatures have been redacted for privacy Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 1995 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO 2 0 CHAPTER THREE 3 3 CHAPTER FOUR 4 0 CHAPTER FIVE 5 6 PHOTOGRAPHS 6 2 EPILOGUE 7 4 1 "Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone." - John Ciardi CHAPTER ONE We are shiner fishing, my brother Mark and I. Neighborhood kids may be with us~they often are—but I can't remember. We are small, no older than six or seven. We use poles rigged with monofilament filched from a spool in my father's tackle box. Our red and white bobbers and one-ought hooks have come from other suppliers.