Consider loneliness as a weaver of want,
As a giver of needs undefined,
As some ancestral repository
For a personal mythic tablet;
As a nerve, nudged overgendy—
Or laced with worry;
As a womb, wailing out its
Liquid waifs, its tight lips waiting,
Waiting...
As a tyrant, timeless and elastic—
Consider loneliness.

The Eye in the Ceiling (1991). Consider Loneliness as These Things