Notices by dogtrax (dogtrax@mastodon.social), page 8

@wentale @Verenanz @anna_phd @tellio Thx for this. Might you post an image that represents your digital writing? Looking for others to interpret through poem and music ... Peace

@lauraritchie I hope you got to where you need to be, safe and sound

Close your eyes, Winter,
as your sky falls on my tongue;
We taste ancient rains

#smallpoems

This is an odd #el30 tangent, perhaps, but I saw Ralph Breaks the Internet yesterday and I made a connection to the inquiry we are doing with the course, about how to make things better

http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/11/25/ralph-broke-the-internet-you-should-too/

@katebowles @tellio I remember

@katebowles @tellio There is always so much to write about, re:cairns. I love how your words brought us to the ocean and back again. My pockets are stuffed with shells, and maybe a few stones for the cairn we build together.

@fitheach Somewhere, a soundtrack was likely playing, too. I've had those moments ... Hope yer head is OK

They buried The Sarge yesterday. He was our elderly neighbor, a veteran of the Korean War, who suffered dementia for the last months of his life. I spent many afternoons over the years, chatting with him about the world as he slipped treats to our dog. The Sarge retired with honor from the military and then spent 10 years as a volunteer, driving disabled veterans to medical appointments. Losing a neighbor is different from losing a family member, but any loss lingers. #smallstories

“... when I see this, it immediately takes me back to the greatest time of my life, to the moments you feel that little hand reaching up through yours, when you know you’ve given her a section of your heart that you didn’t know you had.”

-- from What We Keep: 150 People Share The One Object That Brings Them Joy, Magic and Meaning, story by John Ficarra, edited by Bill Shapiro and Naomi Wax, page 142

#smallquotes

@reto I, too, try to write a poem every day. Some days, it feels like junk best left forgotten. Other days, something bubbles up. I've been vigilant about posting it over at my write.as site, too, just so I have a running archive of daily poems. https://write.as/dogtrax/

@reto And what's interesting is that view of the prose poem on the app I use (where I wrote and sent it) is different from the view here on the web (where I am now reading it). So, it works different on the app (where I purposely formatted to spill letters over to the next line). On the web, it just looks like I added random spaces. So, intriguing juxtapositions.

@reto It's an interesting change for me. I wanted to explore the notion of prose poetry and also the limitations of the containers of our writing. Not sure I was completely successful ...

And the comic version of that #smallpoems experiment

Nothing contains a poem like the boundarie s of physical space, the box in which we wri te, words flowing in and beyond those walls become fragments, loosely disarranged tho ughts one might peruse with curiosity, for w hen what is written is curtailed by form it mi ght lose its function

#smallpoems