tissue

• Dharker uses the impressionistic poem combined with free verse to

  create a sense of ambiguity as the poem is open to interpretation.
• "paper that lets the light / shine through"


  Dharker employs the extended metaphor of tissue to illustrate the ephemerality of human power.
• "Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines"


  human creations of "borderlines" are ultimately made redundant by nature as human power is ephemeral
• "might fly our lives like paper kites"


  simile - incites the reader to constantly question the world around them
• "turned into your skin." 


  monostitch - readers forced to confront their own transient mortality and the breaking of the regular quatrains echoes how human lives break down as human power is finite.