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Ambiguity Test

   




1.         What is the meaning of the word “window”?
                    a. an opening in a wall to let in light and air
                    b. a framed area on a display screen for viewing information
                    c. period of time during which an event can occur
                    d. an aperture
                    e. the moment after, a place to wait


2.         Assuming that these definitions share a common core concept, what is the node that links them?


3.         If John has not bought an ink-filled writing instrument, but he has
            bought a female swan and a small enclosure to place it in, would it be
            true or false to say that John has “bought a pen”?


4.         Is it possible that the answer to the previous question is simultaneously true and false?

           
5.         Does the phrase “clouded history” refer to weather or to memory?


6.         What of its simultaneity?


7.          If, on a cloudy afternoon, a poet is walking home carrying two figs,
             a mandarin, and some grapes, and, in the last leg of the journey, they
             are approached by a man who shouts at them, asking if they are a man
             or a woman, before attempting to kick their legs out from under them
             in a fit of anger, how many legs are in the story?


8.         How many fruits?


9.         To answer a more pressing question, is the poet a man or a woman?


10.        If we consider the weather, and how immediately the poet seems to
             forget about the traumatic events of the day, is this simultaneously an
             event of clouded history and an event of clouded history?

11.         Assuming that the context is a clouded history, an unending chain of
             legs, in other places, at other times, what is the meaning of the word
             “run?”



Poet, essayist, interpreter & translator Day Heisinger-Nixon is the author of ROOM | ROOM | ROOM (forthcoming, Futurepoem, 2026). Raised in an ASL-English bilingual home in Fresno, California, they now live in Berlin.