Monster Mash ·

Great God!

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on page 173 of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. The background is predominantly drawn over with blue highlighter. The page is also collaged over with polka-dot tape, an image of a snake, and an image of a human hand. Drawings of a sailboat and flowers obscure portions of the original text. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message against the decorated background.

By Stella Guardado

Great God! I am here to
hope
lifeless
pale and disoriented

I live
life
senseless
surrounded by the

love, so dear, so worthy.

I
embraced her
whom I cherished.

I felt
sensation
are the
grin; he
the corpse
I rushed a pistol from
station, and, run-
with the swiftness of lightning, lake.
the pistol brought the room. I pointed
and followed track with
ours,