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16 home movie Sunlight seeping into the playroom. The tiny kitchen set.Whole plastic strawberries and dollops of plastic cream on plastic cakes. Three of us, each a color: blue, yellow, pink.The shadow of our dead black dog. Our father, home from the taxidermist, enters the frame, hangs the smallmouth bass on the wood-paneled wall. Cut to the yard:Yellow buries her toes in the sandbox. Blue and I file in and out of the play teepee. A snake slips over my pink shoe and into a hole by the buckeye tree. When I run inside, shaken, someone follows to capture me. I am riding the horse on springs. I rock until its hard nose grazes the carpet, my own reflection tiny and trembling in the camera’s glass eye. ...

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