Tissue

• Tissue (metaphor)

  well-used books

  Koran
• Tissue (opening line - start of the extended metaphor)

  Paper that lets the light/shine through
• Tissue (metaphor)

  Maps too. The sun shines through/their borderlines
• Tissue (Tri-colon)

  the marks that rivers make, roads, railtracks, mountainfolds
• Tissue (metaphor)

  with living tissue, raise a structure/never meant to last,
• Tissue (metaphor)

  If buildings were paper...

  ...sigh, a shift in the direction of the wind
• Tissue (simile)

  hat was paid by credit card/might fly our lives like paper kites