workshop of the three little pigs

When the wolf came upon the first poem he could see the lines were just straw. A half-inhale was all it took to blow away the poem. The second poem he came to was made of sticks, and with a great gust of breath he blew apart the poem. But the last poem he encountered was a stanza made of brick, and no matter how hard he tried to blow and blow, the brick box held.

airborne

The lines were like a handful of straw held up to the wind.

effigy of alphabetic straw

To read materially is to make the word a crude effigy of alphabetic straw.