‘As if digging a grave’

Harvard Square

— Photo by Caroline Culler

“….The tiny dormer windows like the ears of a fox, like the
long row of teats on a pig, still
perk up over the Square, though they're digging up the
street now, as if digging a grave,
the shovels shrieking on stone like your car
sliding along on its roof after the crash….’’

— From “Cambridge Elegy,’’ by Sharon Olds (born 1942), American poet and teacher

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