Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of numerous poetry collections, including But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, chosen by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2010 Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award; Personal Science; and Travesty Generator (Noemi Press, 2019), winner of the 2020 Poetry Society of America Anna Rabinowitz Prize for interdisciplinary work. First Place winner in Narrative’s Eight Annual Poetry Contest, Bertram teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

Photograph by Dennison Bertram.

Two Poems

by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Circles in the Sky

I want to want
to tell you
about dakota
where I

rev
the wolf


in my throat
zone
of avoidance


buffaloing
the sky above
People on couch
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