From the Fishouse

i

On the page, a man the size of a letter

wears a white necktie and a dark suit.

j

Next to him, a woman the size of a letter, too;

she wears a white scarf and a black gown.

-

Not a punctuation sign but a mark

of accentuation written between two lovers.

i j

He says, “I am a single bone under the skin of a letter.”

She says, “I too, am a letter, but I have a curved hipbone.”

i-j

See them on the white bed of a page, how they hyphenate,

how they will create language together.