A Clear Day and No Memories

No soldiers in the scenery,

No thoughts of people now dead,

As they were fifty years ago,

Young and living in a live air,

Young and walking in the sunshine,

Bending in blue dresses to touch something,

Today the mind is not part of the weather.

Today the air is clear of everything.

It has no knowledge except of nothingness

And it flows over us without meanings,

As if none of us had ever been here before

And are not now: in this shallow spectacle,

This invisible activity, this sense.