Five Points, Vol. 2 No. 1
Fall 1997From Allen Ginsberg, “I don’t know what I’m doing any more than anyone else, but at least I know I don’t know what I’m doing, and most people think they know what they’re doing.”
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Kate Daniels
Necks
Because he looked undamaged
when they raised him
from the water, because
his mother failed to see him fall,
I still rise each night to ascertain
my sleeping children live, to touch
their stilled and silent
bodies, to press my face
against their throats, inhaling
odors that are theirs, alone.
The pulse lives in the neck, as does
the breath, and that is why, I guess,
I go there to dialogue with God, and avail myself
of the bony cup the collarbone provides
for my teary alms of gratitude and fear.