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“A Soldier’s Home, Hughes,Arkansas, ” after Eugene Richards The rusted-out laundry wringer sinking into the porch’s soft planks makes the crisp pleats pressed into the soldier’s khaki pants mysterious. His house is loaded on cinderblocks—corrugated tin roof, siding split along the wood grain, metal blinds slicing the only window’s light.The soldier’s brass buckle gleams against his cloth belt. The bill of his private’s cap shades a black anonymous bar across his eyes. For the camera he sets his jaw square, his arms are sword blades pressed to his sides. History melts in the baked dust behind him—snapped bike chain, crumpled sock, fifty-gallon drum shot through with . holes. On the stoop, a checker-shirted kid  Dumesnil PGS:Layout 1 4/28/09 12:32 PM Page 9 hunches like memory, squinting into Arkansas sun. Out front, the soldier’s creased shoulders wait to grow chevrons, invertedVs flying upward, out of this place.  Dumesnil PGS:Layout 1 4/28/09 12:32 PM Page 10 ...

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