A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Two flowers are at the bottom of the page, and a branch with leaves reaches down from the top left corner. The words are blacked out with pen, and also with pictures of the top of a tree.

By Paige Passantino, Ada Comstock Scholar ’23

handful of
gone,
departed,
vanish’d
dissolv’d
dazzling
proud
coffin’d
sad
my friends
She’s here,
don’t I forget