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