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Poetry dealing with winter.
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"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. It's his
way of telling whether or not I'm dead."
February, Margaret Atwood
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Winter from behind a window.
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Bluster Sunday
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The sweetness of a winter day.
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