‘It tasted like winter’

— Photo by Kembangraps

”…inspired by ants
I tasted the sap
that oozed in great drops
from the bark of the pine
it tasted like its needles smelled
like winter like mountains or early morning….’’

— From “Amber Necklace,’’ by Cheryl Savageau, a Worcester, Mass., native of Abenaki and French-Canadian background