Like the broken design of
yarrow stalks thrown and
scattered by 
the shifting days,
this eager way I cast
for fate, guiding moonbeams
toward you at midnight.
Down, the cryptic dice of longing! To wish
for what befalls
these hexagrams 
changing is once, twice
linked between now
and the wanting of
something else.

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Ulrica Hume is the author of An Uncertain Age, a novel, and House of Miracles, a collection of stories, one of which was selected by PEN and broadcast on NPR. Her work appears online, in literary journals, and in anthologies. She tweets @uhume.