Bizarre Climate.

Hailstones fell a June fifty years ago, the beginning
of a new ice age the local paper solemnly declared,
the coal depot was quickly emptied and a forest was
chopped down. My brother was hit by an egg sized
hail-stone took to wearing a German army helmet,
but when he came to New York he was arrested,
they thought he was an East German communist spy.
America needs her external enemies without it she
will fragment; give, reluctant, births to a free Alaska,
perhaps Nebraska, Main and California too will
demand independence, Warmest January for since
1957 the local paper says, sparrows under the roof
slates are nesting; pity their chicks if February turns
freezing; I have not bought winter wood this year.