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Jay Robinson

Home Movies

Some nights they filmed 
themselves and called it 
 
pornography. The acting 
was amazing. A montage 
 
where she peeled an orange 
in one long, teasing curl, 
 
and the hairs of his forearms 
stood up like it was early 
 
morning in late October. 
They kept the movies 
 
on her hard drive. He 
titled them snuff films, 
 
including one in which 
she relit the pilot light 
 
on the oven, wore 
his flannel shirt, and said, 
 
Nothing makes me scream 
more than the thought 
 
of annotation. In most cases 
the plot advancements 
 
lacked proper context. 
Special effects involved 
 
a fruit fly on the lens, 
the sticker on an apple. 
 
Someday, he said, someone 
is going to watch these 
 
and write a PhD thesis 
in disappearing ink. 
 
She didn’t say anything 
at all. She didn’t have to. 

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Jay Robinson teaches Creative Writing and English Composition at The University of Akron and Ashland University. He's Co-Editor-in-Chief/Reviews Editor of Barn Owl Review and Associate Editor of the Akron Series in Poetics. Poems have appeared in Anti-, The Laurel Review, The North American Review, among others. Prose has appeared in Poetry and Whiskey Island.

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