"Appalachia's Last Snowstorm"

"Appalachia's Last Snowstorm"

How the children scream and laugh!
in the unexpected manna,
Their merriment goes on and on,

They have rediscovered snowballs, 

Oh, they would so love coasting!
--if anyone had had a sled,

Incongruous, the foolish adults', 
         weeping
and blubbering about 
“White Christmases”, 

Meanwhile, 
the palms along the Dan and New 
shiver

and smirk at befuddled alligators.