Sometimes
Sometimes I think
I see the systems within me—
chaotic orbits,
wheels moved by words.
Sometimes I feel
I can see everything, all at once—
the silverware and the Romans
and the books and every girl I’ve been with
and all the birds in the sky.
Then I fall,
comfortable and blind, like a dead man—
a dead man in ice,
until summer returns.
Mario Dávalos is a painter, writer, photographer, and consultant from the Dominican Republic. His work has been published by The New York Times, Outdoor Photographer, The Washington Post, Wildlife Photographic Magazine, Bennington Review, and The Festival Review.