The Straightened Arrowed

It all smelled like the rising,
like red, white, and blue,
like we got something right,


















and for the first time,
I could say this is not the first time,
because I believed all along,

in all of us,
all of us in here staying this course,

there was something to be said for slow and steady,
it was,
after all,
slow

and

steady