Tissue

• Key Message:

  The power that paper can have in our lives. Also, how human life in temporary.
• Context:

  Dharker was born in Pakistan and grew up in Scotland. Her poetry is often about identity
• "well-used books, the back of the Koran, where a hand has written the names and histories"
• "Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines"
• "a grand design with living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last"