Poeta Cullei

Tyler Goldman

Poeta Cullei

 
 
I’ve grown tired
of the subject
of myself.
I am
 
weighed
down by it.
I am thick
of it. Today
 
it puts me
in a leather sack
with a little asp
and an Ethiopian
 
monkey, a rooster
and a mastiff, and sews it
shut, and throws it
in the river.
 
 
 
 

Tyler Goldman’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry International, Colorado Review, Blackbird, Horsethief, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Academy of American Poets, the University of Maryland, and the University  of Utah, where he is currently a doctoral student in English Literature and Creative Writing.