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Casting Runes

by Ian Whiteley

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Casting Runes

 

What price the steaming goat entrails

Coiling on a dusty Roman street?

The clouded mysticism of a crystal ball

Peered into for some future comfort?

The divination of ancient Gods

To tell us where our slouching bodies go?

 

The smoke and mirrors of

fortune teller, crystal-gazer, spaewife, seer,

soothsayer, sibyl, clairvoyant, prophet,

oracle, augu...

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Monday 11th May 2020 3:04 pm

NaPoWriMo2018   day 11   the future   fortune telling   mistrust   in our own hands   the way ahead

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