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A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. On the right side of the page, a pair of hands cup dirt. From the hands, roots spread across the page.By Emma Alexander-Eitzman

Open

I open
the world
I choose
myself
The earth,
the constellations
belong to me
and I to them

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