Heidi Czerwiec writes about the complexities and beauties of punctuation in lyrical writing:

“Punctuation began as a guide to reading aloud, akin to musical notation, indicating breath breaks and rhetorical shifts, differences in pitch: verbal stage directions. Punctuation as punctum, existing all at one point, until… expanding infinitely outward across the emptiness of the page’s space, inflecting it with flavors of pause and visibility.”