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Paper that lets the light shine through
Has religious connotations. This line also alludes to how thin and fragile paper (/human power) is
the back of the Koran, where a hand / has written in the names and histories, / who has born to whom / the height and weight, who / died where and how, on which sepia date
The line emphasises the power of paper in recording history
Pages smoothed and stroked and turned / transparent with attention
As paper, or tissue, acts as a symbol for human life, the references to the fragility of paper could also be references to the fragility of human life
Paper that is thinned by age or touching
Language relating to thinness or transparency, emphasises fragility
Turned into your skin
Paper symbolism. Paper acting as a metaphor for human life is crystallised here
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