my mother died December 27th, 1994/no one will be able to say this about me/her mother died on December 14th, 2003/my daughter died on January 5th, 2006/i wondered about this dynamic/who are we all with or without the people who birth us/the people we birth/what happen to the birth stories/i wonder how i can be a motherless daughter/a daughterless mother/all my women now sit within my ancestorial line/i must look within to find them/i must look up and over to wonder/