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.