I sing of punctuation....'What? ', you say, br 'I've never heard a sonnet on that theme! '; br and thus this modest goddess, clothed in grace, br performs her holy task; unheard, unseen, br br except in trivial printed marks (- like this -) br punctilious editors put in - or erase; br yet, she's the Sherpa to the mind's high bliss br who leads our thoughts to peaks of silent praise; br br immortal consort of the god of speech, br handmaid of mind, bestowing measured pause br between each thought; their silent truth to reach br by resting mind in mind's divine true cause.