Four Poems by Isabel Sobral Campos
Dark Sonnet Snow
Pincers
White sauce
American creamers
Gigantic feast
No Elks Allowed
Depot override
Commencement
For wildzone
Firing elms
[ code red]
[one-way road]
[hermaphrodite]
The world was made
in your image
Frost Sonnet OFF leopard
Three vines
[mirage]
European fogs
The West
With blood
For silent
Schist
Moose charge
Humbug spire
I would go to
All the corners
Of the world
[ killers
torching the wild]
(while still my feet untouched by fresh water creek)
Bloody Sonnet
euthanized grizzly 8-13-15
Cub horizon
Bear conniving
Ursus Horribilis
Kris Tempt
TEAR [ The West]
Out there
A head inert
In Yellowstone
Dirt tracks
Condemnation
[off with their
heads]
Dear animal
Incomprehension
Radio Sonnet
Blooms
[Spray angle
See instruction
Bell]
Backward count
Airwave hypnotism
Ideology making
My veins swell
With dilatant
Considerations
Of deadly pro-
Bells [ Solution
Square chemical ]
Intermission
Isabel Sobral Campos is a poet and assistant professor of Liberal Studies at Montana Tech. Originally from Portugal, she spent the last decade on the east coast and recently moved to Butte from Brooklyn. Her poetry has appeared in Bone Bouquet, Gauss PDF, and Gobbet, to name a few. No, Dear and Small Anchor Press recently published her debut chapbook: Material.