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A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The words are "blacked out" by purple highlighter and crossed out in pen. images cut int he shape of butterlies are scattered across the page, as well as hearts and other flourishes.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The edges of thepaper are town, and the lines are "blacked out" with brown crayon. A photo of a boy screaming is glued to the bottom right corner of the page. There is also a gray screaming ghost upside down on the right side of the page, so that its head is next to the boy's head.

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The words not blacked out are underlines in magenta.

A piece of art made using a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The page is covered in colorful rectangles in red, orange, yellow, green, and blue

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. In this poem, the lines are blacked out by black tape with white grid lines on it.

A blackout poem made from a page of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The top of the page is bordered with upside-down trees. On the right side of the poem is what looks like a group of icy rocks.

A blackout poem made from a page of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. On the right side of the page, two hands cup dirt. Roots spread across the rest of the page

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass

A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Words are removed with whiteout. The page is pasted on orange construction paper. White wisps are drawn around the poem.

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