Non MINORIS AESTIMO me
As I apply my mascara, I tell you--
I have always been the oracle.
I don’t need to hold your palm,
read your love lines. I am more
than a fortune teller on the side
of sagebrushed highway.
I know how you rage in your dreams--
destroy brick walls, cut your knuckles
so deep you taste metal from the spray.
You are safe here in the valley.
You have found the lotusland,
feast on sweet honeysuckle--
there is still an oasis in this desert.
As I apply my mascara, I tell you--
I have always been the oracle.
I don’t need to hold your palm,
read your love lines. I am more
than a fortune teller on the side
of sagebrushed highway.
I know how you rage in your dreams--
destroy brick walls, cut your knuckles
so deep you taste metal from the spray.
You are safe here in the valley.
You have found the lotusland,
feast on sweet honeysuckle--
there is still an oasis in this desert.
Marisa Silva-Dunbar's work has been published in 24 Neon Magazine, Chantarelle's Notebook, Cabinet of Heed, and Marias At Sampaguitas. She is a contributing writer at Pussy Magic, and is part of the Legend City Collective. Her work is forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys, Ghost Heart Literary Journal, The Rising Phoenix Review, Ice Floe Press, Sybil Journal, and The Charles River Journal. Marisa is the founder and EIC of Neon Mariposa Magazine. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @thesweetmaris.