Blackout Poetry · May 7, 2022

A blackout poem created from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words of the poem are whited out and the remaining words are circled in black. The background is colored in stripes of purple, blue, and teal.

By anonymous

dance. play.
The show passes.
A city of the departing,
the earth, population.
return monuments and deeds,
thrift and prudence never-ending
Where men and women whistle of death