Tim,

Oh, how I'd love to have a long discussion with you on this -- I am familiar with Occam's razor theories -- Wikpedia doesn't reall do it justice though:
"The principle states that among competing hypotheses that predict equally well, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove to provide better predictions, but—in the absence of differences in predictive ability—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better."

The key is "the fewer assumptions"  ~smile~   I have uttered this many times in verse and in threads... the word IDEA as the "ID" in it --- mix that with my favorite definition of poetry by Archibald MacLeish: "A poem should mean but be."

My free-fall verse always, believe it or not, has some strict structure beyond the grasping for purpose -- but I don't always succeed.

Norm

Tim wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2015 at 4:36pm:

Norm,

But the author's dead, right? The words manifest from the ether onto the page.
Sorry, a little leftover lit theory snarkiness.

"[I]deas settling determinant" is a sneaky line. It's not ideas are the determinant, nor an easy synonymous phrase, but rather determinant is distanced from ideas, almost mathematically so.

I like, in the play that this kind of poetry permits the reader, how ee is firmly resting upon the word "authoring," especially after the breaking loose of "edge" and the rending of "thee."

Namaste,
~Tim

authoring

words
     falling
     impermanent


tottering on the  e
                                dge
     not posturing


ideas
   settling
     determinant


reaching
     towards th ee
     while authoring