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 2
nd
floor
of Albuquerques Free University
Central & Stanford
Spring of 1970
in a free poetry class
a duende edition
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 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 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 life-
what 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 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 pion 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 pion 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 her-
the 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
4
th
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
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