company of a man

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on page 16 of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. The background is predominantly painted/drawn over with various colored pencils, with visible pencil strokes. Glitter has been pasted across the page's margins, as well as some obscured parts of the text. Select words and phrases have been left legible, creating a new poetic message against the colorful background.

By Nayelis Aviles Rolon

company of a man with me;
whose eyes romantic, my
dear sister, the want of a friend.
possessed well
of a capacious mind, tastes my own, to approve
friend repair
poor brother! execution
But evil to me
fourteen years wild on
Thomas’ books of voyages
with the celebrated
only when in my power
its most that I perceived
acquainted

useless no
friend, among mer-
Yet some feelings,
beat even in these rugged bosoms.
is a man
national professional
finding
he was unemployed