Blackout Poetry · May 8, 2022

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words are crossed out with whiteout. At the bottom of the page is a black and white photo of goats on rocks.

By anonymous

forests or pine or breath of prairie,
With open airs of
or or or from or
Or the black stream, or the wide blue spread of scenes
And murmuring rustling sound of the world.
subtler tallying mind-formulas
sane and large
mounting higher, diving deeper
Union!
justified, thought,
Thought of justified, blended reality!
lo, the immortal idea!
New World, a task is thine