Poetry by Joshua J. Hines

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I made a Marine a shadow of a man the moment my shutter snapped closed, the click echoed through the empty hallway of the abandoned school, his M4 in hand and the M9 strapped to his thigh evaporated into black, until all that remained were soft edges wrapped around a silhouette standing out of place.

Desert Beauty
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Joshua J. Hines spent four years as a military journalist in the U.S. Marine Corps. He has been published in The 2015 Piney Dark Collection, The Subplots Lesson’s Chapbook, and The Blue Route: A national literary journal for undergraduate writers, and was also awarded the SFA 2015 Literary Award for Best Creative Nonfiction.