Ancestree

Posted on February 26, 2021 by | Leave a comment

Ancestors

My ancestors were

agricultural labourers

and fisherfolk.

They tilled the land,

and toiled on the sea,

and their children’s children’s children

helped give birth to me.

And I fell out of my ancestree

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