Guilt and blame

Quote

Poem

“Your Daddy had been aiming you at God”

‘The Shot’

“your real target / Hid behind me. Your Daddy, / The god with the smoking gun”

‘The Shot’

“In my position, the right witchdoctor / Might have caught you in flight with his bare hands”

‘The Shot’

“I never dreamed, how occult our guilt”

‘A Picture of Otto’

“I understand – you never could have released her. I was a whole myth too late to replace you.”

‘A Picture of Otto’

“How sick is she? Is she exaggerating? / And I recoiled, just a little, Just for balance, just for symmetry”

‘Fever’

“the overload of dilemma”

‘Fever’

“You were overloaded. I said nothing. I said nothing.”

‘Fever’

“You did not want me to go but your bees / Had their own ideas.”

‘The Bee God’

“When the first bee touched my hair, [...] Marking the target”

‘The Bee God’

“I had let it all grow. I had supposed / It was all OK.”

‘The Blue Flannel Suit’

“Now I know, as I did not”

‘The Blue Flannel Suit’

“Finding your father for you and then / Leaving you to him.”

‘The Table’