A Gray Estate
Ah, the front page
Sunday's best broadsheet
serving not the mind, but dirty soles
unread as packaging for plates and bowls
wadded to save the bicentennial glass
instead of democracy
—Dustin Renwick, Monmouth IL
Dustin Renwick recently graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism with his master's degree. He has written for several magazines and newspapers. His poetry has been published in the Missouri Creative Writer's Collection and in The Daily Palette, an extension of The Iowa Review.