Taklamakan

I have aspired to be the Linnaeus 
of loneliness, of my own loneliness
as a guide to taxonomy that reaches
past desert of me to locate others

so let me give it a try, loneliness
can be hot or cold, filled with wrath or grief,
can be of a lion, or that of a mouse,
can have hints of hope or none, untamed pride

or even generational remorse,
it can be sli…