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A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words of the poem are crossed out with whiteout.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The page is colored in blue marker except for the words that remain. A large black and white photo of a man in a hat holding up his hands is pasted on the page. There is also a red hand shape and two drawings of snakes.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words are crossed out in white out and the remaining words are circled. The page is framed by black tape. An abstract black and white drawing is at the bottom of the page.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words are crossed out by purple and blue yarn sewn into the paper.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words of the poem are crossed out in black. The poem is framed in by a scallop-patterned paper. At the bottom a black-and-white photo of a child wearing a tutu in a ballerina pose.

A poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Patterned paper is pasted in various areas on the page. Additional hand-written pieces of text have been pasted next to the poem. At the bottom, typed pieces of text have been pasted.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The bottom and top of the original poem are covered with green construction paper. In the remaining space, words of the poem are covered with green and yellow dotted Washi tape. Washi tape patterned with grass frames the poem.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. A black and white drawing of bare, twisted trees in a forest is overlaid on the page, with cutouts to reveal the remaining words of the poem. At the bottom is a cartoon of a pig in overalls holding a brick and a brick trowel. On the right is a black-and-white photo of a person on a couch holding a glass of liquid.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words of the poem have been cut out and pasted together to form the new poem. The background is colored in black. A photo of grass replaces the places in the page where the words have been cut out.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words of the poem are crossed out in black. A black and white photo of a man in a suit is pasted on the right. At the bottom, tape is made to look like a hearth and fire is drawn coming from it.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words are blacked out in black and gold marker. The background is lightly colored in red.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. On the right of the page is a pasted black-and-white photo of a couple lying down on a beach. Black tape, a black shape, and a cut-out black heart outline are pasted on the page.

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