Lecture on Apantomancy

Apantomancy: Divination by means of any objects that happen to present themselves. To this class belong omens drawn from chance meetings with a hare or an eagle. -Encyclopedia.com

We know this form of divination is accurate
because we have met poets.

We know that apantomancy is not inference
because divination comes from articles at hand.
What is within reach will only remain relevant
by coincidence. What is obtained is past.
Possessions and juxtapositions do not cause the future.

We know that apantomancy is not resourcefulness,
nor cunning, nor a confidence gained by the self-assured,
because divination comes from things presented by chance.
What crosses our path is on its own path;
was led to ourselves and then, as necessary, leads away again.
What is parallel may rhyme, or convince by analogy;
but parallel paths do not cross nor converge.
Divination being orthogonal to the four dimensions,
apantomancy is something more than making-use.

We know that apantomancy is about ecology
because divination comes from
special significance of chance meeting of animals.
The complexity of sentient minds,
the destiny of that which grows,
a warping of the images of interspecies eye-contact
that reveals a coincidence is no coincidence at all.
Seeking is believing. Concentrate. Find.
To startle is to befall, like fate.