Been thinking about this new addition to my lexicon all day, lossified . . . how loss can calcify in the brain, & how loss is classified in its privacy/ isolation but also in its public pronouncements (i.e. lost dog, legal notices, obits, etc…) Thanks for sharing this word, a new word for a feeling we all share.
I may be way off the mark–and reading way to much into it–but the first thing I thought about was lossy compressed file formats like .mp3 removing the extraneous bits, just like haiku.
Red Dragonfly 
M.,
Been thinking about this new addition to my lexicon all day, lossified . . . how loss can calcify in the brain, & how loss is classified in its privacy/ isolation but also in its public pronouncements (i.e. lost dog, legal notices, obits, etc…) Thanks for sharing this word, a new word for a feeling we all share.
–Peter
You’re welcome, P. I find it a very satisfying word too.
concrete-ish, eh, but, hey, let us ruminate!! (have you seen my accidental slip yet?!
just playing with the possibilities… in Frogpond it’s just a word but yeah, I guess I was feeling concrete this week.
You must have given the printers a fit! 🙂
Oh… Merrill, it didn’t appear this way in Frogpond. 🙂 That was the inspiration that came to me when I went to put it on the blog…
I was wondering how you submitted it! 🙂 Now you’ve probably started something!!!
I may be way off the mark–and reading way to much into it–but the first thing I thought about was lossy compressed file formats like .mp3 removing the extraneous bits, just like haiku.
Interesting reading, Robert! Not what I was thinking, but a valid take on it, I’d say.
Your poem kickstarted this
Thanks, Aditya! Fascinating history.