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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

Mary Shelley

'Mary Shelley', a poem by Maria Takolander

by Maria Takolander •
November 2007, no. 296

I was given to this body as haphazardly
As the monster of Frankenstein.

Lightning is a man’s metaphor,
But like fire it provides

A force alien to question.
Perhaps I am only this, this flesh,

 


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