Thanks for trying the newspaper and book page blackout technique (scientific terminology there) in class Tuesday. Please share at least one of your blackout text pieces as a COMMENT on this post.
You could type the text you left on the page as a sentence or poem or story. You could also take a picture with your phone and post your work that way on your own blog, but that is optional.
I'm thinking you could do this same technique with any printed material containing a good chunk of text to work with. I also think you could be inspired to write all sorts of other pieces by using your blacked out piece as a starting point.
You could visit Austin Kleon's website to see what others have come up with and even post your own work there if you're up for it.
"Black holes, devouring the light
ReplyDeleteBlink: He's gone
The foreverness of death
Teetering between two worlds
flesh and air
bone and dust
we never fully die
the matter we assume just changes
we become minerals
layers of sediment
food for plnts
for sun
for air
if we did not die
and our bodies did not melt into the earth
there would be no more life
When I'm finished, I'm not me
I shiver
Juliet--
resurrected
brand new"
Marijuana marijuana marijuana cannabis marijuana
ReplyDeleteI put the glass down
ReplyDeleteMom walked in angrily
I shouted
She slammed the glass down
It infuriates all the folks
Spread the word
hunter bishop counted the rest off. take a look at the council out of Satan.
ReplyDeleteI just dont understand why they didnt speak. How did one of them, only sort of occasionally, understand her
ReplyDeleteShe was breathless.
ReplyDeleteI felt a stir of panic rise inside my throat. This was not going to end well.
She was hanging upside by her knees.
I thought about calling for help, but I found myself helpless.
The shot came
ReplyDeleteHe was pawing through the tool chest, his teeth clicking metal.
He caught the slight separation, the overlapping echoes
and his brain, so conditioned to gunfire,
two shots, with only a half-second's separation
He was nearly out the door when he caught himself
Whatever's happened has already gone down.
Two shots, three possibilities: two shooters, both firing
At virtually the same moment
Firepower and matte-black holsters
ReplyDeleteHer eyes noted that hunger,
Maybe is enough to
hunt the storm wired.
we sing
ReplyDeleteshe swam away
Nix moved closer to Lena and took her hand ¨I have been thinking of you
Every imperfection came through as a hard bounce and jitter. Huge flames splashed over the eaves. He heard the shrill sputter...wait for it...Then he saw the lake; shimmery silver lighting.
ReplyDeletein the dark, tangled in thorns
ReplyDeleteand lungs that couldn't seem to get enough air
all I could think about was
the crashing of my heart
I stumble to spare myself from the darkness
I was scared
I didn't answer. I loved
ReplyDeleteher instead of
Amy stopped several feet away from her
"Do you love her?" she asked.
I wasn't embarrassed by how I felt.
I didn't move.
After a long moment, she lifted her eyes to me
Not yet. Right now
she said that you were too quiet and strange, That
you couldn't be
wanted
thought They
felt like not belonging to my
body. watching me, gauging my reaction.
I knew I wanted to
smile. But then--
where is she?"
pulling and pulling again
ReplyDeletesome darker heart twists
where the moon steered the dark
in the whisper with the pull
left in the wake
of upstream
the way to the current of downstream home
for the darkness
had ever drifted down moonlit river
had wondered the snow like frozen tears
dark silhouettes lived
where the world and dead
bent, parted, stopped,and
the moon wished from the current gray riverbank
she was released
ReplyDeletedoctors felt strongly she'd made a sulking experience
the threat of retaliating with her own silence
Traveled a lot and its been fun. However, we'll get to the Grand Canyon and put your time, and years through April.
ReplyDeleteLungs emptied all at once. I'd hit water. No up or down, just blackness. Coating my mouth and skin. So cold. Just a symptom in this blackness. I felt it oozing down my cheeks from my hair. I felt like I was in the middle of the earth. I was so cold.
ReplyDeleteIt was pulling at me, I couldn't swim forever. I half swam, reaching out. There must be a way out of this. My stomach twisted inside me. The sides stretched up and away from me, endless.
I could cry for help, but no one would hear me.
Feet away breathing heavily
ReplyDeleteDragging me by my left arm
Too exhausted now to resist
He makes no move
I can't focus
Makes my stomach hurt
I follow
Feeling horribly
"My grandfather's brother? I thought he was dead."
ReplyDelete"Wait, I get it. It's not dead-dead, Chris. It's dead, as in excommunicated."
"you're a Yeager," Lena said.
Nathan said. "Yeager is German for 'hunter.'
It would explain some of their customs, how cult-like the village was.
Why would this even be a secret?
That's not all to keep
ReplyDeletea knife and one abusive asshole together.
The night was just a little too convenient.
Surprise in hell and I'll be quiet.
My feelings
ReplyDeletelike thumbtacks
just scratching
ignore it.
"How'd you do it?"
you learn
Through a strange neighborhood,
ReplyDeleteWe took a sharp right.
We screeched around another curve.
Makayla Maxheimer:
ReplyDeleteblack holes, devouring the light
blink: he's gone
the foreverness of death
I can feel myself teetering between two worlds
the matter changes
becomes minerals
layers of sediment and rock after billions of years
when I am finished, I'm not me
I shiver
resurrected
brand new