Back to it with the ally

content/poet-and-mystic/008.md

@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ waiting for the time you might turn to stone
 and be completely still at last.
 
 You told me how as you sat, the room lengthened,
-curved around, turned on you --- strengthened,
-it seemed, by your very presence ---
+curved around, turned on you — strengthened,
+it seemed, by your very presence —
 and amid all of that gathered pleasance,
 bit you in half.
 
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ perhaps, subtext, allusion, metaphor.
 You were right, though, I could hear it in your voice.
 There was finality, there, which spoke of a choice
 already made. Endings were writ on your face,
-your hands, and your steps --- your very pace
+your hands, and your steps — your very pace
 spoke of completion.
 
 I replied to that sense rather than your words.