In a dream last night an English Language Learner
announces his invention
of a new letter to the class

It is a an inappropriate letter
We have not been talking about letters

My face does not twist into confusion
the class does not laugh

It is not a letter
It is a word

He says
we need “spabove”
for special and above
and I think about him lost
and grant it

as if I could reinvent language
to make a place for each reality