A Six-Foot-Wide Plow on a Four-Foot-Wide Sidewalk: A Photo Essay

Spring is here.  As the snow melts away it reveals what the Winter has hidden.  In the neighborhoods around Wesleyan University, the snow melt has revealed sidewalks lined with muddy ditches left behind by plows which scraped the snow from walkways during storms, but also scraped away wide swaths of turf and soil, leaving long dirty scars, torn tree roots and enormous piles of divots and dislodged sod and topsoil.

In Just-spring when the world is mud-lucious... -- e.e. cummings

Ah! ás the heart grows older 

It will come to such sights colder -- Gerard Manley Hopkins

WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte  of Marche hath perced to the roote -- Geoffrey Chaucer

WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote 

The droghte  of Marche hath perced to the roote -- Geoffrey Chaucer

Snow melting when I left you, and I took/This fragile bone we’d found in melting snow -- Gjertrud Schnackenberg

And February was so long it lasted until March
And found us walking a path alone together -- Dar Williams

As trade has suddenly encroached upon a sacrament -- Emily Dickinson

And merry larks are ploughman's clocks  -- William Shakespeare

Up, up my soul.  This action is abominable -- Ogden Nash

Still the snow keeps its hold on the ground -- Dylan Thomas

Let them think twice before they use their powers
To blot out and drink up and sweep away -- Robert Frost