Family Tree

By Dana Share

a list of all my sisters:

I have sisters in all corners of the world

whose dreams are all filled 

with the same song

I have sisters in Palestine 

I have sisters in Rojava 

I have sisters on skid row

I have sisters who are Stepford wives 

I have sisters in prison

I have sisters who are in the landfill 

I have sisters in catholic school 

I have sisters in med school

and I have sisters in unmarked graves in the ground

I have sisters in retirement homes

and I have sisters in foster homes

I have sisters in Iran

I have sisters in Ukraine

I have sisters in Mexico

Uganda

Italy

and Tennessee 

I have sisters in wheelchairs

and sisters who use walkers 

I have sisters who are mothers

and sisters who cannot give birth

I have sisters with buzz cuts

and sisters with long manes

sisters with missing limbs

sisters with missing loved ones

sisters with love in their hearts

and sisters who have never felt love before

my sisters are everywhere and we are dying, 

and my brothers are nowhere to be found

Dana Share is a poet/multi-media artist residing in Guelph, Ontario. Her work tends to have a strong feminine element and usually some social critique on the way in which society promotes logical “unemotional” ways of thinking and a commitment to the hustle and bustle at one’s own personal cost. She thinks combining list making and poetry conveys these themes of the binary, though a lot of her work is also lyrical and prose based.