This
by A.R. Ammons
time will wash
away
so
clean not a
cry
will
be left in
it
A.R. Ammons was a professor in the English Department at Cornell University, teaching there from 1964 until his retirement in 1998. He published thirty collections of poetry, and is often regarded as an inheritor of topics common to 19th-century American Romanticism. His work ranges from book-length poems (Tape for the Turn of the Year, Sphere: The Form of a Motion, Garbage), to lyrics just a few lines long (collected in The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons).
Submitted by: David Chirico
Tags: The Monday Poem
