solo punctuation mark

ended the sentence
on the dot
extended the menace
with a slot
onward the language meanders
pretending to represent
that which cannot be seen
castles, skies, various tries
to propose a way it's been
yet all i am is a way
to see that there is more
a fish hook that would never
do anything but separate lips
a moon with another moon
or with a tear drop
separating the failures
connect you won't
but i'll be here in between
giving you pause
time to collect
thoughts on relatedness
an apparition
rather a partition
more definitive
than anything
Oxford or Merriam
could come up with
after any number of letters