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MARCH 2025

Much about this now waning winter has felt fraught. From the quotidian to the global, it often seems as if the unpredictable has become the disconcerting norm. Yet, meteorological spring is here, friends; and the vernal equinox is fast approaching. As poet Lynne Viti elegantly reminds us, the natural world still “unfolds according to nature’s blueprint” inexorably and for all.

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By Lynne Viti

Princess pines shake off the last spring snow

stand majestic in their miniature forms

multicolored fungi erupt from tree trunks

ferns unfurl into lacy green sheaves

methodically, steadily, trees leaf out

all unfolds according to nature’s blueprint

birds and spring peepers follow suit—

the conductorless spring orchestra

tunes up for summer’s performance.

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Lynne Viti is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts. Her most recent poetry collection is The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press, 2022). She was selected for the 2023 Miriam Chaikin/Westbeth Artists Poetry Award and has also received recognition in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, and Fish Publishing Poetry Contest. A faculty emerita at Wellesley College, she serves on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club.