A Bird Knows No Barbed Wire

Tired

Dust covered

Waiting

Convoy clearance

Three weeks gone

Lost dusk in western Iraq

IED on MSR Tampa

A bird flying in and out of barbed wire

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From the chapbook Warrior Writers: Move, Shoot and Communicate. 2007. Calica, L. (Ed.). Burlington, Vermont. Reprinted by permission of the author.

From the Fall 2011 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 28, No. 1)

Aaron Hughes is from Chicago, Illinois. He served in the Illinois National Guard from 2000 to 2006 and was deployed in 2003–2004 to Kuwait and Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He returned to study art at the University of Illinois and at Northwestern University, where he received his MFA in art theory and practice.

Aaron Hughes' prints are available at justseeds.org.

A Bird Knows No Barbed Wire

By Aaron Hughes

From the Fall 2011 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 28, No. 1)

© 2007–2018 Aaron Hughes

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