Blackout Poetry · June 15, 2022

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The background is colored like a sunset over the sea. In the middle of the page an orange flower is painted. Pieces of paper containing characters written in Mandarin are attached to the paper.

By Shirley

I see the table-lands notch’d with ravines, deserts, gains,
I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard
the antelope, and the burrowing wolf.

I seethe highlands of Abyssinia,
I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tama
And see fields of teff-wheat and places of verdure and gol

I see the Brazilian vaquero,
I  Bolivian ascending mount Sorata,
Vacho crossing the p  ns, I see the in. ble rider
arm,
I the ampas the pursuit of ld cattle for their

I see  d ice
I see t e and the
I see t  ae poising his lance,
I see the S  -built sledge drawn by dogs,
I see the pe  see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and
I see the cliffs, gla  s, valleys, of Switzerland—I mark and
the long winters a   olation.

I see the cities of the earth and make myself at
them,
I am a real Parisian,
I am a habitan of Vienna
I am of Adelaide
I am of I   er, Bristol, Edinburgh
I a  iz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyo
ort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,

I see four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow Ri
the Yian-tse, and the Pearl,

and
in
cles
ex-
istletoe
ee the
st of

大望河长上城内

下顿惟余

失㸓莽㸓莽