THE SEEDS

Larry Goodell2014

THE SEEDSpoem with suggested procedure for reading

written in Placitas, New MexicoMarch 30, 1970

this poem was presented as suggested on the 2nd floorof Albuquerque’s Free University

Central & StanfordSpring of 1970

in a free poetry class

a duende edition© 2014 larry goodell

po box 571placitas, new mexico 87043

larrygood@comcast.net

THE SEEDS

THE SEEDS

the seeds came today

I project into this space everything that is interesting

on top of that

crawl into the 4 corners of the room & shoot from there towards the center

the words ill-used re-used disavowed given upwhatever you see reforms the makeup of yr body

(last night I was thinking of what if I read in NY say at St Marks Place get over the hangups of coming in-from where they 'camp out' inevitably drawn in to the center I shoot eyebeams of what happened that day after Easter in Placitas when our seeds came from the Natural Development Company in Pennsylvania overthe mail strike & into our home)

the center is an ever increasing spiral which containssome of those seeds from Netted Gem Cantaloupes to Moss Curled Parsleythere is an ever going around from the corners of ,the room outside in arcs

am I outside the building in doing so in these wide curves swung by the airplanes that fly over our house

includedis a large shard found 200 feet above us behind the house they went up & lived around there in the canyons hunting & threw their pots out abt 1500 I guess always OUR TIME

OUR word for THEM the landsteps, down, toward the River & weplant these seeds on a couple of their terraces you can see well from the air

there is a point up there from which something invisible is hanging which swings around here

in spirals towards the center

‘completely

wipes thru the walls & makes this whole thing of living in cubicles a LIE yr own

environment ? that is 200 feet from here is what is given identical to this center + & - the energy of joined source the paho made of 2 sticks of acequia willow that grows around the old spring backed by rocks

abt a hundred feet down from the housemale & female sticks joined together tied with the breath of life-

what feathers do we havethe beginning of any god disputed until you untie them it & find the seeds there are the gift they & I bring

I swing outside the room & come back- in &-move

closer

Carol said you must have a lot of Zen to live there ‘I need people’ & D. when we took a short walk outside & up to Peyote Rock you look down thru-the steps of magic feet were on the ground but did her feet touch

this ground ?

where everything is organized I fall towards& wonder what playboy poses on a table in the back of the room

glad to meet you here is Lenore & Buster Rainbow

(he cut out of space a little time naturally it was time he planted & not the herb that came later) that is‘

-there is space here for the land to speak to you as it did me drawing me into the canyons so it isnt accident that the piñon speaks here I touch the sap to my tongue & the interrelation is a discharge so real I can testify

‘

I move closer to this spiral Hopi Marriage Mat there is piñon gum there the seeds we ordered & got organic or the ones we grew ourselves if this garden of the future existsthe spaces that I walk on speak the sister in the canyon I got myself down on the airplane roar over my head drove me down onto her-

the brother by the cottonwood a hundred shaman-cock-staffs leaning up against his tree

he told me under the bees buzzinghe was old he was young sometimes he follpws but mostlyleadsme

/I am here at the brother-sister-first-god source

the you he & Ito verify this room is a circle go outside the walls by way of the corners to find the kiva the lights weak candles here are the entrance points FIRES& this center mat is the mat Lenore & I were married over in PlacitasDecember '68 & I have married over Roswell-New York City this Paho prayer-stick spells over said the alphabet over joined in the air

fossils obsidian-scraper spruce yarrow geodes the list endless secret circlethe center eye candle under ‘

seeds came today

the weapon in the middle what cooks them all the way from balm to broad London leek or pulls back from the center to reveal

when we leave

a list of what we eat

/30Mar70

THE SEEDS

KENTUCKY WONDER POLE BEANSPREMIER GREAT LAKES LETTUCENETTED GEM CANTALOUPES PENN STATE BALLHEAD CABBAGEBURPEE HYBRID ZUCCHINI SQUASHSWEET BASIL SUMMER SAVORYTHYMEBUTTERCRUNCH LETTUCE SWEET MARJORAM EARLY GOLDEN SUMMER CROOKNECK SQUASH ACORN OR TABLE QUEEN SQUASH SMALL SUGAR PUMPKINBLOOMSDALE LONG STANDING SPINACH NANTES CARROTCHAMPION MOSS CURLED PARSLEYSAGEDETROIT DARK RED BEETSCLEMSN SPINELESS OKRA FORDHOOK WONDER PEAS HEINZ PICKLING CUCUMBER EARLY BEAUTY HYBRID EGGPLANTICEBERG LETTUCE EARLY SCARLET GLOBE RADISHGIANT SUNFLOWERDWARF GREY SNOWPEAS

Procedure for presenting The Seeds

1. a candle in each corner of the room

2. the straw Hopi marriage mat on the floor in the center of the room. a mound of seeds, fossils, etc. on the mat, the paho stuck vertical in the mound.

3. light the reading candle, light the 4 candles from it. at the corner of the 4th candle, after lighting it, read THE SEEDS facing the center of the room.

4. move towards the center-mat while reading. at 'I am here at the brother-sister- first-god source' be at the mat & lift up the paho

31Mar70larry goodell / placitas, new mexico

gardening at the Hertford Ranch in Placitas late 60's early 70's

photo John Woods: Lenore Goodell in Garden

set of images from our early placitas years

a duende edition2014

po box 571placitas, new mexico 87043

larrygood@comcast.net

THE SEEDS

Larry Goodell2014