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“February,’’ from Très riches heures du Duc de Berry

“Winter. Time to eat fat

and watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,

a black fur sausage with yellow

Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries

to get onto my head.’’

— From “February,’’ by Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic

Here’s the whole poem.