Bibliomancy Oracle

Divination through Literature

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When you are lonely, who do you miss? When you are lonely, who do you remember?

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from "thương | love wounds" by Minh Nguyễn

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Can I do what I must? Can I become a menace to my enemies? Can I remain a menace to my enemies? Can you?

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from "colonization will end—" by Nicole Arocho Hernández

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the tears in my eyes before they could douse the burning candle that stood in the way of darkness. the truth is, we do not know

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from "an empire without urbanization" by S. Abdulwasi’h Olaitan

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she’s staying in the moment, she’s burning up with desire, which is the opposite of staying in the moment, 

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from "Meditation Vampire Girl" by Tara Labovich

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it is the earth that grounds us for the lightning strike:

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from "THE GRIMOIRE" by D.A. Powell

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I had a yearn for something certain

certainty slips slothed parabola

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from "I had a scan" by Molly Akin

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I was going to read you a poem but you’re already on your way,

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from "Lament with Waning Crescent" by Amorak Huey

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life is merely

to ovum and sperm

and where those two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.

from "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs" by Renée Nicole Macklin (Good)

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not everybody’s handwriting is legible from the street 

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from "The Cosmos" by Jen Tynes

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If you are unable to locate or kill a gazelle, kill time,

Kill two birds with one stone, kill with kindness.

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from "How to Write a Yusefian Ode" by Terrance Hayes

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The bearded people turned

to the unbearded people

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from "33rd Poem on Air" by Terrance Hayes

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Pretend you are a potato

& hide in a sack

peek at the earth through a hole

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from "Little Palm" by Lesyk Panasiuk (translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky)

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Silence is not golden.

it’s paper money

that’s worth less than the paper. Inflation!

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from "Russian Accordion" by Lesyk Panasiuk (translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky)

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Let’s remember that in Finland

they have a word that means

drinking at home, alone,

in your underwear. Let’s feel

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from "Kalsarikänni" by Michael Bazzett

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is an instinct

that shall not

  rest—a tomb, a tone,

atone

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from "On Humility" by Shara Lessley

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when I did nothing but search myself

and steep in each minute of the deepening indigo sky,

I suddenly had somewhere everywhere to be.

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from "Scimitar" by Arthur Sze

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Don’t summon me, don’t summon me.

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from "Sea of Cyprus" by Elli Paionidou (translated by Peter J. King and Andrea Christofidou)