Blackout Poetry · April 30, 2022

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Lines of the poem are blacked out in red and purple coloring, and blue tape. The words left over are circled in red. Yellow words are written in the margins.

By anonymous

souls
As souls only understand souls.     souls     souls
souls
souls
Of myself forever reproaching myself,
who more faithless?     light
Of eyes that vainly crave the light,
light     light
Of the empty and useless years of the rest,     light
inter-twined,     intertwined
What good amid these,
Here     Here     Answer     Here
That you are here     Here
America dangled mirages,     mirages
amplitude,     amplitude
mirages
lift off     amplitude
off
off
off
off     souls