Wikipedia Poem, No. 771

before of we  
their supreme  senators     
defied our      toxic healing
as late as 1832 as early as never
often or not we went into such truths  
with diathermic intent    iroquois 
or white man prescribed against clay     
for a trail of cherokeed we 
the military commissioned we 
their gold sutured race not we
the legal precedent is well-established
the land has been forced into pinnacle 
pinion  
earlier it was dead of exposure hunger disease 
in and of our vers'd state thirst seeded passage 
courts decree  over flowering mutants mature hardwood 
early slopes nineteen meadows thick where native species 
heavy mountain remains

Sources:

• “A Brief History of the Trail of Tears.” Cherokee.org, Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center, www.cherokee.org/About-The-Nation/History/Trail-of-Tears/A-Brief-History-of-the-Trail-of-Tears.
• “Great Smoky Mountains.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 30 Apr. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains.
• Jensen, Ove. “Battle of Horseshoe Bend.” Encyclopedia of Alabama, 26 Feb. 2007, www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1044.
• Kimball, Roger. “Annals of Leftist Autophagy.” The New Criterion, May 2018, www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/5/annals-of-leftist-autophagy-9751.
• United States Supreme Court. “Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia.” OpenJurist, Jan. 1832, openjurist.org/31/us/515.