Tissue

• ‘The back of the Koran, where a hand has written in the names and histories’
• ‘Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines’
• ‘Find a way to trace a grand design with living tissue’
• ‘Thinned to be transparent, turned into your skin’
• • Dharker was born in Pakistan
  • Moved to Glasgow
  • No regular rhyming scheme - freedom of living, control over life
  • Layers of tissue symbolise her layered identity
• • Power of humans
  • Power of nature
  • Identity
  • Culture