Proud
when she
was two
trying on words
and turning them over
on her tongue
she’d string them along
into a line
her memory a mile
and one day
I taught her how to say
The Pledge of Allegiance
and before I knew it
she was reciting it
word for word
so, yesterday
when she handed me
a tiny triangle
I felt that same sense
of amazement
at school, they had taught her
how to properly fold
the American Flag
and she was so proud to show me
what she had learned
in fifth grade
TL