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      March 18, 2022The Internet of ThingsErin Murphy

      (n.): the networking capability that allows information to be sent and received by objects and devices

      The low tide riverbed silt
      of things. The cloud-swept
       
      distant hill of things.
      The open bedroom window
       
      in spring of things.
      The moonlit cricket
       
      symphony of things.
      The pitter-patter
       
      tin roof rain of things.
      The fifty-year marriage
       
      loose skin of things.
      The clipped winter light
       
      of things. The stippled lymph
      node of things. The grief.
       
      Oh—the grief. The brief
      ecstatic flight of things.

      from #74 – Winter 2021

      Erin Murphy

      “I grew up in a home where two newspapers a day were delivered to our front stoop: one in the morning, the other in the evening. I credit this with my interest in the news, which led to an early job as news editor of a daily paper and even now inspires many of my poems. Reading a business article that mentioned the technology term ‘the Internet of Things’ (or ‘IoT’) last summer, I began thinking about our other collective experiences—the natural world, relationships, death—and about William Carlos Williams’ pronouncement, ‘No ideas but in things.’”

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