Corps of Discovery
Forty
men, hand-picked, by
two captains navigate
upstream, keelboat, pirogues, canoes
poled or
pulled, towed
against currents,
shifting sandbars, dead tree
snags hidden on river bottoms,
always
heading
north and west to
unknown Pacific shores,
forged by trials, hardened, strong to
the core.
© Doraine Bennett
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