In the Cloud

By Win Treese

If technology is our contemporary landscape, there should be more poetry about it.

This collection of poems explores the meanings of our technologies. Sometime amusing, sometimes haunting, they explore varied aspects of how we experience technology today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cirrus Press
• Release date: Jul 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798985547603

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In the Cloud

Poems for a Technological Age

Win Treese

In the Cloud: Poems for a Technological Age by Win Treese

Published by Cirrus Press, an imprint of Serissa Research, Inc.

Copyright © 2022 by Win Treese. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. For permissions contact [e-mail].

Cover design by Emily Brett.

ISBN: 979-8-9855476-0-3 (ebook)

ISBN: 979-8-9855476-1-0 (print)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022906858

For Miss Sanders,

who would probably not be surprised.

Table of Contents

Stanza 1

It’s Magic

Putting the Hammer Down

Decoding the Code

Ode to an NFT

Why Math?

Stanza 2

Reference Points

Metaphorically Speaking

Pouring Concrete

Startup 1

One Day

Stanza 3

The Stories in the Code

In the Forest

Moby Bug

Let Me Count the Ways

Stanza 4

Skimming

Complexity is Complicated

River of News

Working the Bug List

Water, Ice

Stanza 5

Algorithmic Optimism

A New Mythology

Amplification

Startup A

Explanations

Stanza 6

The Newspaper

Checking the Mail

In the Surf

I Wrote This All By Myself

Stanza 7

My Ebooks Have No Shelves

The Internet Has No Holidays

Old Code

Lost in the Woods

Stanza 8

Information Places

Rearranging

Entombed Knowledge

Startup Alpha

Too Much Infinity

Stanza 9

Who Knows

Caution: Data Collection Ahead

Giving a Reference

In the Cloud

Acknowledgments

About the author

Stanza 1

It’s Magic

Technology can seem

like magic

but the magic

can disappear.

Maybe

the magic disappears

because we learn