With the past, I have nothing
to do, those times were
different and they are over
Wash tub, bleachfield and garden-toilet
in sepia with a jagged edge
behind modern colour photos
of my own life in the progress
of the nations to the romanticism
of amusement parks to participate
in Romans or Indians
farmers and old crafts
from the Middle Ages
my own life
as a real explorer
who explores the Celts
and the Batavi, smelling
their life, the pine needles
swampy grass, smoking fire
charred food, wet clothes
and the self-dug poo pit
that I already knew from the photo