Emily Dashes ·

To be alive is power

A blackout poem made from a page of poetry by Emily Dickinson. Words of the poems are covered in floral patterned washi tape. To the left of the page is a line drawing of a woman lying down.

By Sadie McRae

225

IX
TO be alive is power,
To be
ourselves

X
WITCHCRAFT
our
moment

XI
is the Breeze
That lifts us from the ground,
And leaves us in another place
Whose statement is not found;
Returns us not, but after time
We soberly descend,

XII
NO romance sold unto,
a man