Blackout Poetry · June 15, 2022

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. There is a handwritten note at the top and bottom of the page. The rest of the page is decorated with drawings mostly in blue, with some green and red. Words are also painted across the page. The words used in the poem are circled in blue and numbered, with lines connecting some of them. The poem starts with word number one.

By Meredith Jones

Song of an Answer?

OCEAN WOMEN PERCEIVE THEMSELVES
BEAUTIFUL, planting whatever sunshine, bearing a
message before Me. Send me the signs
Face to face I perceive my profound enjoyments and properties
and money unavoidably spread, Now I List THE SIGNS
OF THE ANSWER

THE SIGNS OF

IS A QUESTION

THE ANSWER

Is a question the sign of an answer? Is an answer the sign of a question? Or is a question the sign of The Answer? Is the sign of the answer a question. The sign of the answer is a question. I HAVE QUESTIONS!