i. Olfactory Cinema
Certain smells
stop you mid-step,
in close-eyed smile –
long-lost memories
project on the backs
of your eyelids
ii. The Merits of Self Awareness
Discerning depth
is abstruse
when viewing a valley
from above
iii. Independence
Be not
the gnomon,
but the sun
iv. Thin On Top
Winter imminent –
Final
southern
migration
v. You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression
Even strong magnets
repel
when misaligned
vi. (But It’s What’s Inside That Counts)
Passersby rarely glance
through
a well-decorated window
vii. A Powerless Rosetta
When electricity ends
we will construct pyramids
with our computers
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Stefan Strychar was born and raised in Detroit. He left Michigan after college, and in 2011 earned an MFA in creative writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He spent the next year as a poetry reader for The Literary Review. In his travels since, he has completed an MLS in archives management, interned at Harvard and MIT, released three albums of music, and studied black and white film photography.
He is currently the Poetry Editor for the Forest for the Trees Journal.
“Morning Existentialism 7” originally appeared in Pulchritude Press.