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The Number Poems
Matthew Welton
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The Number Poems
Matthew Welton
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Matthew Welton is a poet enchanted by form and process. Many of the Number Poems abide by subtle patterns or constraints, creating symmetries in the arrangement of sentences, lines, words, or metrical feet. As with good architecture, however, Welton's rules and methods resist exclamation; rather, they are the framework upon which are established localised ambiances, be they of warmth or dazzlement, the home or the dream.Other sequences, such as the mind-altering 'Melodies for the meanwhile', begin with a palette of words and images and recombine them kaleidoscopically. By adding layers of colour and sound, Welton composes a modulating sensory wave. Even in silence, we do not so much read these poems as perform them.
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I
The book of numbers
Construction with phrases
ONE
Whatever I was thinking it was almost right:ā
literatureās for losers; religion makes us weak;
the mindās a kind of monkey with its teeth all gone.
Iām sitting in the kitchen with a pile of books
I thought Iād read but canāt remember reading and
Iām wondering whatās for supper ācause I had no lunch
and when the monkey in the mind pulls up outside
and rubs his ribs and sucks his gums and says Aw shucks,
we need to talk ā what else am I supposed to do
but give him coke and coffee till his words wonāt come?
The insects in the windows fill the air with thoughts.
The clouds are closing in on us. The sun looks lost.
TWO
Iām living in a lighthouse with a girl so tall
the heavens round her head surround her thoughts with stars.
Iām thinking of the sea-fish. Iām collecting rocks.
The summers last forever here, we like to think,
though when we go on picnics we expect some rain
and any day sheās out of sorts her windfall words
come blurting out in blusters till her breathās all gone.
The days she takes the car to town my brains feel bruised
from wondering how sheāll find her way, and what sheāll spend,
and who sheāll meet for lunch, and when Iām going through
her underwear the stacks of cards I find come signed
with love and logic, from the monkey in the mind.
THREE
The monkey in the mind expects [no thoughts, no words,
no sound, no speech the made-up rules [no rain, no breeze,
no dust, no sun] he sets out in his notebook as
his plane takes off [no stars, no fish, no rocks, no light]
should some day if heās lucky and the winds donāt drop
[no pull, no rub, no need] be sure to bring about
[no birds, no clouds, no wind, no towns, no trees, no hills]
a kind of generous light [no teeth, no love, no sense,
no weight, no brains, no breath] like only God could give
[no out, no in, no fit, no feel] where what we want
we get [no means, no moods, no books, no kids, no girls]
and what we get [no when, no what, no who] we want.
FOUR
Iām trying out a treehouse for my girlfriendās kids
and all my dreams are treehouse-dreams where fraught blue birds
interrogate my motives for trashing her flat...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- I: The book of numbers
- II: Melodies for the Meanwhile
- A note on the title
- A note on the note on the title
- A note on the note on the note on the title
- Notes on the poems
- Acknowledgements
- Also by Matthew Welton from Carcanet Press
- Copyright