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APRIL 1998 | VOL. 1, NO. 4

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JAMES L. IANNONE, a native of Mineola, Long Island (NY), is a recent graduate of the Emory University School of Law. While in college studying politics, he incited many heated debates with his controversial student newspaper articles. Iannone lives in Dix Hills, NY.

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A Child's Winter Fantasy

JAMES L. IANNONE

Frigid gusts and
Mom's shrill order
To bundle up
Will never eclipse the excited glow
Painted on a child's face
As the season's first snow
Carpets the ground
With alabaster flakes.

Children hedge their bets
That school will be canceled
Before they retire to bed--
Homework assignment left incomplete,
They dream the blizzard outside
Will postpone classes for a week.

Minds filled with visions of white-capped peaks
And sleds to race down icy streets.
A stout snowman comes to life
And mediates countless snowball fights.

Faces colored cherub red,
Fingers numb from the day's events.
Hot chocolate thaws frozen heads,
Ice-crusted mittens defrost by heating vents...

Clocks ring
A piercing "Good Morning!"
Children gallop to the window
And wipe away the steam
Only to see
The charcoal street paved clean.
The plow once again proved to be
A child's pesky enemy.

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