Blackout Poetry · June 9, 2022

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The edges of thepaper are town, and the lines are "blacked out" with brown crayon. A photo of a boy screaming is glued to the bottom right corner of the page. There is also a gray screaming ghost upside down on the right side of the page, so that its head is next to the boy's head.

By Abi Bowering ’24

dying earth
immortal female
sweet-heart and the old maid,
mothers of mothers,
you are not guilty to me.
The little one sleeps in its cradle,
witness the corpse

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