This

time will wash
away

so

clean not a
cry

will

be left in
it

Copyright Credit: A. R. Ammons, "This" from The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons. Copyright © 1990 by A. R. Ammons.  Used by permission of the author and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Source: The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1990)