The inherent dynamics of digital writing allows an approach to literary creation as an experience in which themes and forms acquire a distinct projection on the reader. This article analyzes Maria Mencias project El poema que cruzo el Atlantico (2017) in order to address how digital poetics rewrites the Winnipeg voyage (1939), an episode of the Spanish Civil War which occurred in August 1939 with two thousands Republican refugees on board. By exploring a single metaphor, built around the voyage of the Winnipeg, the author pays homage to memory as a regenerating element of reading and writing from a rhetorical and aesthetic point of view.