Athens – Ana Maria da Silveira Tart, 58, passed away on Sunday, February 25, 2024, at her home in Athens. Family and friends may know her as Anita. She was born on December 12, 1965, in the Azores, and spent much of her childhood growing up in Mozambique, Africa. She came to Massachusetts when she was about 20 years old where she met her husband. They moved to Maine where she would raise their three children, achieve US citizenship, and homestead. Anita loved and cared for her animals that included cats, dogs, goats, chickens, and horses. She loved old graveyards, and her cat - Tigre Russo the "Russian tiger". She gardened in her younger years and loved to grow beautiful sunflowers. Anita was an avid poetry lover and poet, writing thousands of poems throughout her life. She is predeceased by her mother Maria Zelia da Silveira Noia Martins, her father Manual da Silva Martins, her mother-in-law Rose Tart, and her father-in-law Wesley Tart. She is survived by her husband Michael Tart and her three children, Corey, Ashley, and Nicholas Tart. OF THE SEASONS Long is the ballad of the seasons, in this northern land. From having come from earths end, were only summertime, one season, was the year around trend. The four seasons of the year, are so, what I wished to know, in my childhood years. And now, approaching my golden years, I have finally got to know, all the seasons of the year. there is winter, white and soft, cold and long, when our thoughts are dormant, but the heart is strong. And day by day, our dreams become so, of yesterdays. Then there is spring, when all the birds begin to sing. And flowers rebirth, and all is so sweet. and summer, which well I remember, with hot nights, and hot dreams... so tender, fervidness.... And fall, my favorite of them all, with reds, and oranges and yellows. Oh, such sweet vision, enchanted, in my heart's soul! And so, after twenty years, of mesmerizing, watching the winter, for it is strange, so unreal, I do like the fall, best of all. A.T.