Tissue Flashcards
Imtiaz Dharker
1
Q
‘Paper thinned…’
A
‘Paper thinned by age or touching’
2
Q
‘has written…’
A
‘has written in the names and histories, who was born to whom’
3
Q
‘on which sepia…’
A
‘on which sepia date, pages smoothed and stroked and turned transparent with attention’
4
Q
‘Maps too…’
A
‘Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines, the marks that rivers make, roads, railtracks, mountainfolds’
5
Q
‘An architect…’
A
‘An architect could use all this, place layer over layer, luminous script over number over line’
6
Q
‘turned into…’
A
‘turned into your skin.’
7
Q
‘If buildings were paper…’
A
‘If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift, see how easily they fall away on a sigh’
