April 25, 1939

Ted Kooser, born on April 25, 1939 is an American poet who has served two terms as Poet Laureate. In 2005 his poetry book "Delights and Shadows", 2004) won a Pulitzer.

Kooser's poem, "Sleeping Cat," was published in  

Not coming to be barked at: poems  (1976.)

We have this excerpt: 

My cat is asleep on his haunches like a sphinx. He has gone down cautiously into an earlier life, holding a thread of the old world's noises, and feeling his way through the bones. The scratch of my pen keeps the thread.. .