Monster Mash ·

smile / wanderer

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on page 25 of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. The background is predominantly drawn over in charcoal pencil, with visible brushstrokes. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message against the drawn-over background.

By Dana Salisbury

smile
wanderer

never-failing power of penetration
causes of things, unequalled

die with me; alter my determination

a serpent to sting

an apt moral
in case of failure.