Why you can’t go home again

1     My father and I never developed any symptoms of psittacosis.

1.1   Eddie nearly died of it two weeks after Dad’s return from Guatemala.

1.2   In the course of his high fevers, he suffered his first epileptic episode.

2     So I, the

T   tiny

U   ultra-

V   vulnerable

W   waif

X   X-ed out my father,

he gave his place up

to me/for the wild

superior yonders          Y

on

Z   beyond