A QUESTION OF BELIEF (1992?) Healers in the Philippines operate with their fingers softly pushing into the skin until it gives like butter They have their ways to take even cancer out redeeming the body I find it hard to believe in certain miracles in surgery using merely fingers as I dream mine into kitchen-water while washing up I see more than a knife and stainless steel-- a practical saviour after all to keep me guessing. SOURCE: Dancing Table: Poems and Drawings 1986-1991 (Victoria: Penguin Books Australia, 1992), p. 86.
R. A. Simpson (b. 1929)
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