Monster Mash ·

my heart failed within me

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on a page of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. The page is almost completely obscured with black marker. Images of penguins and a shark are pasted across the obscured parts of the text. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message against the inked-out background.

By Kate Hayes

my heart failed within me;

my

own heart
was alone;

almost motionless,

felt the silence

of

who it was, and wished to
overcome
you
to fly from and root to the

wretch who

is you
you you