when to breathe

A writer from Shanxi Province is waiting for someone to decode his novel, a novel without a single word but a set of 14 punctuations...
-China Daily


You have me thinking of a love story
that is nothing more than signals
to remind us
when to breath. This (:)
that (::) a rising tone (:)
driven to the climax
of an exclamation (!) Death alone
is a full stop. On this side, it’s commas
all the way down, longing for
more than half; settling for ellipses...
Fill passing time with conversation,
heavy under the wait
of words.