tissue

• "Paper that lets the light

  shine through"
• "Paper thinned by age or touching"
• "well-used books,

  the back of the Koran"
• "smoothed and stroked and turned

  transparent with attention."
• "see how easily

  they fall away on a sigh"
• "Maps too. The sun shines through

  their borderlines"
• "Fine slips from grocery stores"
• "might fly our lives like paper kites"
• "let the daylight break

  through capitals and monoliths"
• "smoothed and stroked

  and thinned to be transparent,

  turned into your skin."
• purpose:

  • free verse reflects lack of power/control
  • unrhymed, in irregular quantrains
  • enjambment adds to the flowing delicate nature
  • rhyme and rhythm mirrors the fluttering of tissue paper