Welcome wintry wakeup

Sugarloaf Mountain, Maine, seen from Routes 16 and 27. The mountain, as you can see, is a large ski area.

“I like waking up by the lake

frozen over, the frosty meadow

where a white horse still huffs and chafes

by the fence post and a few fog clouds

cling to the tree line of the Sugar Loaf range.’’

— From “I Like Waking Up,’’ by Ira Sadoff (born 1945), an American poet and professor of literature at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine.