How to prepare a garment for vanishing:
Take what was worn to bed and what was worn to breakfast.
Do not separate them. They have already refused.
Lay the fabric flat in full sun.
Wait.
The blue will come for everything—
first the buttons, then the seams,
then the shape of whoever was inside.
If a pajama leg remains, leave it.
It is the part of the argument
no one finished.
If a bedsheet appears as a single line,
do not smooth it.
It is holding the place
of a body that got up
and did not come back to say why.
Exposure time: all day.
All week.
As long as it takes
for the image to answer
its own question
by ceasing to exist.
Yield: one ghost.
Serves no one.