The Sunken Cherokee Towns Along the Little Tennessee

 

Sequoyah, spell this word.

Blue farms yield frogs.  The woods are wet

stumps roamed by fish, not deer.  The mockingbird

hears a cry too gruff for its throat:

a droning motorboat

drags its broad V above the council towns

like a new alphabet.

Fishermen cast for bass where the past drowns.

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