Carol Luminiferous, a piano virtuoso and artist by the age of 11
met Bertino while she was singing
in the choir at church and he was going to Yale.
His family were wash-a-shores and her family
were already on the shore
but they fell in love anyway.

She wanted to spend her honeymoon
at the IOKA theatre watching Flying down to Rio
with Fred Astaire
but Bertino insisted they fly to
the moon and then to Michigan
and Pennsylvania and NH with
occasional stop offs in Barnstable MA.

Now this is no ordinary woman.
She looks fresh as a lily
and she shines like the moon.
So far she has made 1 billion funny prints,
raised two children, hung out the wash,
snowshoed across the state,
and been a friend to wayward potters
in several languages.
Not bad for a blonde.

Every night she fills the tub with
lavender scented bubbles,
sings the plan of her
next thousand prints in Italian
and sleeps through the night
in a villa in Tuftonboro.
Sweet dreams Carolina Luminiferous.