misery

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on a page of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. The original text is predominantly obscured with black marker. Various beige, black, and brown clippings are pasted across the margins and the obscured parts of the text. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message.

By Talia Beckhardt

misery: I left you along the shores of

many months ; do you

dare
break

unworthy of power;
I can make the light

obey
The hour of my

vice.
I am

in

each

bolt which must ravish
the intensity

dearer than
tyrant and

venom.

I am
beneath words

and before my death-