Jeffrey Calhoun
 In Ink We Trust
An admission: when I caught my sister with a Bunsen burner
and a spoon lit up like July, her arm was a pincushion.
Mother made some excuse, a fling with a porcupine.
But those eyes gleamed while failing to move,
glassy like a Faberge egg, artwork
for a jewel thief, her forgettable boyfriend,
advantaged because poison is easy to concoct
behind enemy lines where the bad guys
don’t always wear sleeves, tattoos of stretched dollar signs,
the trust of knowing far too much about tabula rasa.
Jeff Calhoun recently received a BS in Biology from the University of Dayton. He just began a PhD program in biomedical science at the University of Michigan. His writing credits include Blood Orange Review, Lily, Softblow, Mannequin Envy, Stirring, and Triplopia. His recent chapbook is freely available online from Lily Press and is entitled Navigating the Throes of Concrete Ravines. When he’s not mining the human genome for patterns or found poems, he’s probably dreaming about banana pancakes or chocolate milkshakes.
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