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Nesting Instinct of Women (Free verse) by Dovina

Inside the hive a virgin worker lies bent head and folded wings sealed within her quiet cell until awakened from larval sleep by caress and beating of her sisters' wings She fears to leave behind the fixed prismatic form hesitates at the void of space the brilliant outdoor color and shrinks from loneliness of light Duty draws her from the nest wind twists her from the course but she knows she can return to familiar smell of honeycomb where her sisters work and others wait to be born

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 19-May-05/3:59 PM
The question makes perfect sense as worded, at least to anyone operating on a cognitive level above that of a pea. Luckily you seem to be operating on a cognitive level similar to that of a sprout, as you have basically got the idea.

Ordinarily, when I say "It's a possibility", I mean something like, "There is a possible world in which it's true."

Example: It's a possibility that I'm wearing brown jodhpurs <-> In some possible world, I'm wearing brown jodhpurs.

Even though I know I'm not wearing brown jodhpurs, it's possible that I am in the sense that there's a possible world in which I am.

However, this won't do for all cases. For example: "It's a possibility that Goldbach's conjecture is true." This simply means that I don't know whether it's true. If it happens to be false, then it is false in ALL possible worlds.

What do you mean when you say that an interpretation is a possibility?

Do you mean you simply don't know?

Or do you mean there is a possible world where you, Dovina, wrote this poeme with that interpretation in mind?

Or (this is my guess) do you mean it in the vague, wishy-washy sense that "anything's possible when it comes to interpreting poetry"?

Or do you mean it in a temporal way: "That interpretation's not true now, but it may be true in the future."

Are we strumming on the same fucking banjo yet?




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