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A blackout poem created from a typewritten text. Most of the text is covered with black lines, leaving visible phrases that read: “Black walnuts hitting a barn roof / Fairly rapped the morning. / Massachusetts, / Autumn. Orioles and pumpkins. / And the crack of those round shells / Like a hardwood mallet hammering a wedge / Into the moment, splitting it ever open.” The background is a light beige color, and the remaining words form a poem evoking the sounds and imagery of autumn.
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Blackout Poetry Workshop

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Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, Westmoreland Street, Dublin, D02 VR66
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