Tissue
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 24-05-18 12:50
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- Tissue
- Form
- Free verse
- Emjambment
- Structure
- Paper records history
- Human structures are temporary
- Human life still temporary but more precious
- Context
- Born in Pakistan with a hybrid identity
- Writes about culture identity, exile, travel, freedom and conflict
- Quotes
- "paper smoothed and stroked/and thinned to be transparent,/turned into your skin"
- "Fine slips from grocery shops...might fly our lives like paper kites."
- "never wish to build again with brick/or block"
- "trace a grand design/with living tissue"
- "this/is what could alter things"
- "The sun shines through/their borderlines, the marks/that rivers make, roads,/railtracks, mountainfolds"
- "I might/feel their drift,see how easily/they fall away on a sigh, a shift/in the direction of the wind"
- "who was born to whom,/the height and weight, who/died where and how"
- "pages smoothed and stroked and turned/transparent with attention"
- Form
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