CID V BRUNET
Seeking the Future By seeds in bird excrement By oil stains By insects By dripping melted wax in water By yew, oaks, and mistletoe By placenta By flour By saints By tea leaves, coffee grounds or rose petals By the study of entrails By eggs By shadows By flowers By strangers By patterns generated with palms nuts, opele, cowrie shells By minerals By mountains By the use of shuffle on a playlist. The lyrics of the random song is the answer to the divinitory question By old shoes By beetle tracks By Mahjong tiles By onion sprouts By ridges on the breastbone By the moon By cracks formed by heat on a turtle’s plastron By the ravings of lunatics By feelings of fear By things found on the road By the howling of dogs By the throwing of stones By burning laurel wreaths, sage, or figs By random shouts and cries heard in crowds at night By second glances or double-takes By looking over one’s shoulder By drawing sixteen lines in the sand By summoning the dammed By wishbones By cookies By itches By Ogham letters By beans By pig bladders By bumps on the skin By needles By celestial bodies By dreaming By large cities By crystal balls By folding paper, especially money By speaking to the dead By blood By barley By wine in a brass bowl By secrets By fruit By observing the patterns produced by collection of human hair By burning straw with an iron By boiling a donkey’s head By frogs By coins By keys By delivery, especially the randomly-generated words found on grocery bags to identify orders By swing of the phallus By laughter By stars By teeth By wheels By bounced pearls By wild hogs By dizziness By dust By human sacrifice By rice gruel By rainwater, water current Water-witching Water vessels exposed to air By horse, fish, rodent, ant, spider, crab, snake By migration By chance By fields of light Statement: This poem was created by cutting up the contents of a Wikipedia page called Methods of Divination. It is papyromancy, if you will.