Manifest Destiny - Poem #93

Green
street signs
with names
of trees.

Pine
Maple
Elm
Oak

Mounted on metal poles
standing where trees
used to be
like metallic green grave stones.

The map of America
is littered with graves.

Huron
Mohawk
Seneca Falls

Cheyenne
Shawnee
Cherokee
Sioux City

Standing where nations
used to be

Grave stones of Manifest Destiny.

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