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Long Marriage Tortoise

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The tortoise would rather not creep

through the rain across a muddy road,

but it does. If it moved faster, it fears

it might lose the race. In fact,

devoted to the companionable

plod forward: small pebbles, cool earth

on its rounded feet, the tortoise

does not care about the race. It would take too long

for the slow-speaking tortoise to name

its humble blessings.  It has grown to enjoy

the weight of its domed shell fused

and indistinguishable from its body.

~ Kathleen Aguero
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Sam Hamlin

Stubborn Tree

Watercolor

Meet the Creators

Kathleen Aguero

Kathleen Aguero’s most recent book of poetry is World Happiness Index from Tiger Bark Books. Her other poetry collections include After That, Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth, Daughter Of, The Real Weather, and Thirsty Day. She has co-edited three volumes of multi-cultural literature for the University of Georgia Press (A Gift of Tongues, An Ear to the Ground, and Daily Fare). She teaches in the Solstice low-residency M.F.A. program at Lasell University and in Changing Lives through Literature, an alternative sentencing program. Kathleen has received grants from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and the Elgin Cox foundation. 

Sam Hamlin

I am a retired elementary school teacher.  I have been a watercolor painter for most of my adult life.  I trained with two exceptional painter-teachers, Ruth Franson of Hamilton and Betty Lou Schlemm of Rockport.  I owe my painting life to them and hear them speaking in my ear each time I pick up my brush.

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