I have a digital poem in the new issue of *Taper*. It's called "One for Grundy" and was written/coded as I was struggling to make sense of my father's sudden passing in January. I turned to two beloved nursery rhymes from my childhood about the circle of life. The poem intermingles them, confuses them, rewrites them. Hit "More" to see other versions. And view source to see more from me about the poem. Like everything *Taper* publishes, there are strict constraints, in this case the code/poem could be no more than 2k in size.
How do you reduce a life into 2k? Poetry.
Link to poem: https://taper.badquar.to/10/one_for_grundy.html
@samplereality That was amazing and touching. That kind of expression means that you were not inhibited/distracted by technical matters; what did you use that you could express yourself so artfully?
@samplereality I haven't inspected it, but the gentle motion, the white-on-black, and the fading/coming in to focus of things. I spend much of my time coding and would get distracted by, "how can I make it do this?"
@samplereality was that a self-imposed restraint or were you using a tool that enforced it?
@worldsendless The constraint is from the publisher...All works published in the Taper Zine have to be under 2K.
@worldsendless Having the 2k constraint meant I had to focus, and once I had the initial premise, it all clicked for me.