vivid.

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on page 13 of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. The background is predominantly painted/drawn over in black marker. The bottom right half of the page has been drawn over with a black pen portrait of a woman. Across from her is a collaged image of a purple flower. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message against the altered background.

By Zai Dahlee

vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole
is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my
imagination as the region of beauty and delight

as the phenomena of the heavenly
bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. What may
not be expected in a country of eternal light?

all fear danger or death

I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which
elevates me to heaven