work

here: have idea to take action on

lightly touch it about the face and give small kisses

be an affectionate in logomachy, sing and whisper

make it flutter a circular pattern about the room until it lays down with a dry cough 

settling flat against a table top

now you begin:

inventing process for 

transformation

to put creativity into a palace, stripped of  decoration

a space apart, from which to view a dismissal of the actual 

and sweetly apprehend the prostrate page

again and again with the tip of a pen nub blue ink sticking to pulp

pressed and shocked white

myriad ghost ships plan to sweep the desk ski slope clean of sticks

or rocks or cumbersome versions 

of the same text 

swept discreetly behind the desk

made unavailable again

having been once convinced to be

let to fly 

and disrobed completely 

found dumbfounded, in the hearth

with a tiny plastic sack attached

ballooning