permitted

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on page 54 of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. The background is predominantly drawn over in black marker, with purple images collaged across the page. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message against the blacked-out background.

By Ama Oduro

permitted the land of
knowledge.
It gives

to lecture

I trembled
I walked
I reflected
I dreaded
this monster

My
child
an
empty
fortune befallen
me my enemy had
ascended
unable
my pulse beat
unable
my hands,
my unusual arrival,
observed me attentively in my eyes