"Twenty-First Century Exhibit"
our own version of the dervish he was madly spinning?
Bored with ordinary agony, we slouched
toward the tribal wail, the old altar and rot displays
of the twentieth-century wing now under renovation.
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Tomas Q. Morin's poems have appeared in New England Review, Poetry International, and Narrative. He was the winner of the 2010 Boulevard Emerging Poets Contest.
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