A Reading of "Family Legend"

Family Legend is a quatrain which I view as satire in approach, yet reveals the truth about tragic violence; that it exists even in the family we thought could keeps us safe. It is showing rather than telling while action keeps constantly in motion. It introduces characters by exhibiting them in action like in drama. It concerns more in stirring the emotion of the reader than with the matter of the story whether if it is complete. And because the poem is brief, quick and pointed, which resides in its suggestiveness of deliberate details, it draws me to look over again and introspect.

/Once lost, a child buried itself in a pile of lace/ gave me a picture of a child wrapped or hidden in lace. The mother must needed succur or something more divine when she /searched in vain for her rosary/; an implication of tension or an impending conflict.

The second and third stanza summons up an image of a place or setting, probably near the water with some formation of rocks, where the father has fled, and armed with bullet shell - because I didn’t take the crab literally. I also find difficulty imagining the tiny semi aquatic fetuses in my mind. But seeing the father on the cliff, I thought that he is seeing the tiny water vessels or boats that look like semi aquatic fetuses from afar. But then again, it seems odd. The gaps in the story tends to lose the logic of event, when from the cliff, /he summoned the woman and drew his gun/.

When the rosary, which is, maybe, made by coral beads scattered, I pictures the mother fell down, and soon died. /When a bullet dropped into the ocean/, it made me think the killing must be done on the shore for the bullet to have dropped into the ocean, but the father was still on the cliff, did he went down when he summons the mother? The transition of the scene was not very clear, and therefore hard to follow.
But collaborating with the narrative leads me into thinking that the father, the villain, walks away from his crime just like how the sea washes away evidence of the crime.
Again, it leads me more into thinking that this poem is also a dealing of every family we belong to: society, church, country, our own family etc., and the conflict is an inevitable part of it that we must survive on.