THE SEEDS
Larry Goodell 2014
THE SEEDS poem with suggested procedure for reading
written in Placitas, New Mexico March 30, 1970
this poem was presented as suggested on the 2nd floor of Albuquerque’s Free University Central & Stanford Spring of 1970 in a free poetry class
a duende edition Š 2014 larry goodell po box 571 placitas, 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 up whatever 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 infrom 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 over the mail strike & into our home) the center is an ever increasing spiral which contains some of those seeds from Netted Gem Cantaloupes to Moss Curled Parsley there 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 included is 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 land steps, down, toward the River & we plant 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 house male & female sticks joined together tied with the breath of lifewhat feathers do we have the 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 backin &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 thruthe 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 piĂąon gum there the seeds we ordered & got organic or the ones we grew ourselves if this garden of the future exists the 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 herthe brother by the cottonwood a hundred shaman-cock-staffs leaning up against his tree he told me under the bees buzzing he was old he was young sometimes he follpws but mostly leads me / I am here at the brother-sister-first-god source the you he & I to 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 Placitas December '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 circle the 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 BEANS PREMIER GREAT LAKES LETTUCE NETTED GEM CANTALOUPES PENN STATE BALLHEAD CABBAGE BURPEE HYBRID ZUCCHINI SQUASH SWEET BASIL SUMMER SAVORY THYME BUTTERCRUNCH LETTUCE SWEET MARJORAM EARLY GOLDEN SUMMER CROOKNECK SQUASH ACORN OR TABLE QUEEN SQUASH SMALL SUGAR PUMPKIN BLOOMSDALE LONG STANDING SPINACH NANTES CARROT CHAMPION MOSS CURLED PARSLEY SAGE DETROIT DARK RED BEETS CLEMSN SPINELESS OKRA FORDHOOK WONDER PEAS HEINZ PICKLING CUCUMBER EARLY BEAUTY HYBRID EGGPLANT ICEBERG LETTUCE EARLY SCARLET GLOBE RADISH GIANT SUNFLOWER DWARF 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-sisterfirst-god source' be at the mat & lift up the paho
31Mar70 larry 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 edition 2014 po box 571 placitas, new mexico 87043 larrygood@comcast.net
THE SEEDS
Larry Goodell 2014