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Zen Dreams
by C. Delia Scarpitti

First breath

New words uncoiling

Airways spiraling open

Mastering this moment with

Lessons sent from muddy fingertips

Diaper-clad divinities

Have shown me the way home again

Tomorrow is dead

So is yesterday

This hour is the only one

Lying on the bed of grass

The cloudless blue

Our whipstitch quilt

I have forgotten the stories of my life

I pour them into you

Which of us created the other?

This doesn’t matter now

My lips form words – but speak your name –

A mantra – for once, I am alive today

Heaven can fall

Paper can burn

I have inked your dreaming across my heart.

C. Delia Scarpitti is a freelance writer, educator and the mother of three young children. Her work has been published in a variety of publications including, Mothering Magazine, the “We’Moon Anthology: Love: 2006,” “We’Moon on the Wall: 2006,” Sagewoman Magazine, Literary Mama Magazine and Natural Family Magazine where she currently serves as the Reviews Editor. She lives with her husband and family in the mid-Atlantic region and is currently at work on a novel and an anthology project. More of her writing and musing can be found at www.cdeliascarpitti.blogspot.com.

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