Tissue Flashcards
(12 cards)
Paper that lets the light
shine through could alter things
paper thinned by age or touching
Well used books / the back of the Koran.
written in the names and histories
of who was born to whom.
pages smoothed and stroked and turned
transparent with attention
If buildings
were paper
Maps too. The sun
shines through their borderlines
Fine slips from grocery shops say how much was sold
might fly our lives like paper kites
An architect could Place layer over layer
Never wish to build with brick again
let the daylight
break through capitals and monoliths
through shapes that
pride can make
trace a grand design
with living tissue.
Paper smoothed and stroked
and thinned to be transparent turned into your skin.