Skip to content

The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College

Home
Monster Mash
Past Projects

Erased Land ·

there was joy

This is a blackout poem using TS Eliot's work as base text. The image is of two cats in a field at sunset. One looks at the sky. One holds an mouse in its mouth.

By Brigitte Walla

there was joy

there was dancing

he’d rather chase a mouse

Next Do I dare
Previous Daughter of Death

Blackout Poetry Project © 2025. All Rights Reserved.

Powered by WordPress. Theme by Alx.