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A blackout poem made from a page of poetry by Emily Dickinson. Most of the poem is crossed out in black marker, with the remaining words forming a new poem. On the edges of the blacked out poem are black drawings of insects.

By Nora Masters ’26 @norabellem

192

IT was death
dead
tongue for noon.
frost my flesh
crawl
like them all;
orderly burial.

my life
fitted
like midnight

tick stop
space stares
Or
beating ground.

like chaos,
without a chance
To justify despair.

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