So this fabulous ridiculous thing happened. The remarkable Elise Mattheson, whose jewelry has sparked many a story and many a poem, made a piece called “Nine Things About Oracles“…
And it inspired everyone.
No, seriously. At last count, “Nine Things About Oracles” had sparked 108 poems.
So this is another piece where I feel like writing it has made me part of a community of sorts, and I love that!
As for the poem itself, this is one that came on swift and sure. I’ve written about the travails of oracles before, and will again. As you can see from the poem, I think there’s something uniquely terrible in being an oracle, subject to the whims of prophecy…
My version of “Nine Things About Oracles” was published in Electric Velocipede #20. You can read it online here, and order a copy here!
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Review: Terry at Fantasy Literature says: “Dragging an oracle from the realm of myth and placing her in the modern age, translating her life from the ancient one of hanging around a cave to haunting darkened clubs, the poem is a wonderful story in nine stanzas that ends with the intriguing words, “Let me tell you a story.—