Ancestry

You can buy a kit that comes with a vial
and a cotton swab—gloss it over

the inside of your cheek, send it off
to a company which promises to unlock 

medical and genetic mysteries in your family 
tree and find your ancestors' migration 

patterns. Perhaps fill in, once and for all, 
the many gaps in family stories.

At best, however, these are estimates,
though people have found their way

to unexpected results—who got knocked 
up in the war, who they were not a chlid of, 

after all. Who gave you that leaky heart, that 
questioning nature, that inability to believe.