© 2012 by larry goodell

cover by the author

a duende cloud booklet2012

po box 571 placitas, new mexico 87043USA larrygood@comcast.net

larry goodell

THE FATFACED MUSE

When you write you see the dimples in the chin of the fat-faced muse

and you follow along in and out of it.

1

THE WEED

We are not in some kind of Greek austerity we are ample & poisonous

we are the weed.

2

BABIES

Hear the music in the signs of the times?Everything is scurrying for a renewing— one upstart after another becoming a baby.

3

THE CENTERS

Pluralistically ma-nong-a-hee-la

forever.

4

MORNING EXERCISE

Breathe in, easily eases slows down the hammer blows.

Out.

5

AFTER MY MIRROR

Never one to use organic makeup on my face I use no makeup

except when I must pretend to be young.

6

LOVE LIFE

Conflict and worry, where I'm the Ogre until I change my wayspretending to be young in order to get away withchanging my ways.

7

OBSERVATION

Today this morning I will change my ways.

I will acceptinstead of directwith the whole of Lao Tze's Taoon my head.

8

NEO-TAO

And operate in the rutswith as much strengthas the dying lifewill permit.

This is the valleythis is the love I offer you.Tricks, for eternity.

9

TRICKS

Not false ones but borrowed ones borrowed from myself.Coming out of everything I fabricate for myself. Having no brother no hired teacher.

10

MEMORY

Only remembered motherand sister friendwho hum when I workbaking a lightning cakeor making the moon& earth out of leather & stuffcreating ritual out of pausesbetween the words – that earthly silenceof death.

11

AMUSING

They look away when I create the one that I am – so much for the memory of the muses!

12

YOU

I bit off more than I can chew with you – you are bigger than all of me.

13

SHE

You direct the coming and going of my acceptances. You direct the energy to come up and change me.

You are in cahoots with aging.

You are both putting me on the shelf where I used to be in the drawer.

14

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE

At last come to see the miracle of me. As boring as a pillow, as fall of stuff. But the comparison stops there.

15

THE PERFORMANCE

Everyday life is not the last minute – the 2 hours that summerizes all your life, basking in the sun.

16

LOVERS LOVE

The radiance of your being mostly kind and always accepting loving gives the feminine ending to the feminine gives a feminine ending to the masculine.

17

THE WARMTH

Makes you all the more strongerin radiant lovelets me be more strongin low-lying love.

18

AN ENDING

A day of action sting of chile on the lips and the hot fall – turned into Indian summer.

19

was written October 11, 1984

a duende cloud booklet2012

po box 571 placitas, new mexico 87043USA larrygood@comcast.net

larry goodell