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The study contributes to literary criticism by foregrounding the in digital poetics, to digital humanities by showcasing a robust mixed‑methods pipeline for analyzing hypertextual artifacts, and to feminist ecocriticism by positioning the beach as a maternal ecotone where human and planetary cycles converge. As micro‑poetry continues to proliferate across platforms, works like MomComesFirst will remain pivotal sites for investigating how minimal signifiers can encode complex social, temporal, and ecological narratives.

“The ellipsis is like a pause in a conversation. I feel like I have to fill it, otherwise the poem is unfinished, like a mother’s lullaby left without a final note.” (P‑02, 22‑year‑old college student) MomComesFirst.24.06.21.Brianna.Beach.Give.Me.A....

The mixed‑methods approach proved effective for capturing both macro‑level engagement patterns and micro‑level phenomenological nuance. However, the reliance on publicly available social‑media data may have excluded private or non‑English responses, potentially biasing the thematic distribution. Future work could integrate eye‑tracking or neuro‑aesthetic measures to assess how readers process fragmented digital poems in real time. The study contributes to literary criticism by foregrounding