What It’s Like

It takes so many words

To define, to explain

Even one common word.

In a defense of thought

Experiments, Carlos

Rovelli, physicist,

Praised imagination

(Familiar rhetoric),

Cited famous thinkers

(Old-fashioned strategy),

Strove to paint links between

Great art and great science

(They are human products),

And took a pass or two

At defining meaning

As the equally shared

Concern of both, tossing

A little word salad—

Our conceptual space . . .

The kaleidoscopic

Network, Rovelli wrote,

Of analogical

Relationships. Meaning

What, exactly, about

Meaning? You’re the reader.

You decide. You decide

If you like it or not.