from Material
Isabel Sobral Campos
Published in
1 min readFeb 2, 2016
I lost my mother’s kindness
in the bract of the withering
scarlet void mastectomy
in the breast of a bright
poinsettia in orescence
in the colorless collards
roasting familiar
after
a husk
on the palliative wall
hung in family albums
only children contemplate
From Material
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Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Isabel Sobral Campos holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. She recently left Brooklyn to teach literature at Montana Tech of the University of Montana. Her poems have appeared in Smoking Glue Gun, the gobbet, Gauss PDF, Bone Bouquet, and Deluge, among others. Material is her first chapbook.
Read four more poems at Horse Less Press.
