Turtles All the Way
Lombard, Rosemary Douglas
In 2013 a New York Times headline proclaimed that turtles are "Coldblooded, but Surprisingly Smart." These poems cry out the echo of that proclamation, especially for Rosemary Lombard's long-time turtle colleagues at the Chelonian Connection cognition laboratory. In these poems we meet a sea turtle lazing above the anemones, a box turtle entranced by the harvest moon or demonstrating her understandings and skills, a pancake tortoise enraged by...