Family Tree
They
were
midwives
on my mother’s
side. One is
from St. Thomas. One
is from Trinidad.
Grandma is from
Cuba. Then there’s
the one from
the Canary Islands, she
was a doctor. Her
son, grandpa, was a
landowner The one
from Puerto Rico decided
that she would do
other things
and relocated
to New York,
where I
was born.