tissue

• " if buildings were paper, i might feel their drift"

  • tone of sarcasm
  • if we treasure paper so much why not make a building out of it
• extended metaphor of paper represents the fragility of human life "names and histories
• " turned into your skin"

  • uses second person to speak to the reader directly
• "paper that lets the light shine through"

  • semantic feild of fragility
  • paper is transparent