The Passing of Winter 

by Nathaniel Cabral 

the surface area of a human 
measured in tablespoons 

skin sprinkled with flour, snow 
fallen and frozen cells 

a chill felt from the toes 
a vision of slaughtered chickens 
still chicks covered in white sawdust

Nathaniel Cabral is in his second year at NYU and is double majoring in English and Cinema Studies. He is from Sacramento, California, and has been writing since middle school. His favorite writers are Italo Calvino, e.e.cummings, and EmilyDickinson. He hopes to keep writing as much as his imagination will allow (if there are any limits to it, at all).