For Daniel Knapp
Spread these ashes, now
In honor of his freedom,
On the morning of Creation,
On the deep sea of Being,
On the waves of Becoming, his
At their end, in the on-going
Glory of life. Nothing left,
Bits and pieces, images, glimpses
Here and then gone, a hole
In the world, shaped
Like a man: Daniel Knapp
—Peter Marin
Daniel Knapp was born in Alhambra, California. Proudly being of Finnish descent, he grew up in Minnesota and moved back out west when he was 15 years old. He moved to Santa Barbara in 1978. Daniel didn’t always fit in with the social norms; he saw life in his own way. Daniel was a philosopher and would engage in marvelous debates with people.