Oh Fertile God

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Thank you Fertile God.
Oh the gods of the ocean expanded

into the clouds for the garden gods

oh the garden gods the dancing gods of

            the earth of the other earths

            of the many earths of many

                        universes

                        all singing

                        from the mouths of the oceans

                                    clouds and gardens

                        farms and forests

                        mouths of the singers

                                    the birds and lions and panthers

                                    and buffalos & wolves

                                    and elephants and opera singers

                                    and folksingers

                        and everybody in praise for the

               good in the good days

               the good in the bad days

the good ways in bad times

the everything that is, that we who can

work on better:

oh the great enjoyment begins at

                                    any age

as old Fertile Gods you come up from

this Earth, as always you have and will

as the roaring goddesses and mindful

            pleasures of the whole earth

            manured, turned over, furrowed, planted

            as we all sing out

            in speech ways

            in words of the language of all earths

            all earths everywhere

            we work for our food in precious ways

                                        you give us

mindfulness is your dance

                        in the vibrating atoms, harmonious booming

            with salsa backdrop as the tropics elate

            the richness of orchids perfumed and night

                        of foreign moons

            we visit on all Earths

            we relate in our singing how

            singing makes it work and work to play

and harvest

our voices in

the mantle of tropical heaven

here on Earth

as all heavens are only

here on earth.

We weave to be true

in the dance to you

oh Fertile God

            of all the Earths
Thank you.






larry goodell / placitas, new mexico
from To Hell With Mumbo Jumbo, poems 1998

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