A POEM FOR A SUNDAY: 8/11/24

"A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES" By Wallace Stevens

(Above: Wallace Stevens photographed by Walter Sanders for Life magazine. 1950.)

A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES

by Wallace Stevens

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 th…