"It’s snowing again.
All day, reruns of the blizzard of ’78
newscasters vying for bragging rights
how it was to go hungry
after they’d thumped the vending machines empty
the weatherman clomping
four miles on snowshoes
to get to his mike
so he could explain
how three lows
could collide to create
a lineup of isobars
footage of state troopers
peering into the caked
windows of cars...''
-- From "New Hampshire, February 7, 2003,'' by Maxine Kumin
