Bio

Lois Elaine Heckman grew up in Los Angeles, receiving a degree in Italian from UCLA. She has lived for many years as an expat in Milan, Italy, becoming a volunteer nurse and first aid instructor for the Italian Red Cross. Her works have appeared previously in The Fib Review, and among her other credits are Boston Literary Magazine, Shot Glass Journal, Bent Ear Review, Tilt-a-Whirl, The Sonnet Scroll, Persimmon Tree and Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. She won the 2010 New England Shakespeare Festival Rubber Ducky Sonnet Contest, and has placed in various international competitions, including Poetry on the Lake in 2012 and 2013, and the Hungry Hill Poetry Prize in 2012. Her chapbook, "Out of Nowhere" (White Violet Press), was published by Kelsay Books in 2013.

On
worn
pages,
images
roll up curled corners.
Sepia is their color, and
sepia are the emotions they evoke, a bland
and neutral recognition of what existed time ago. If they could speak again,
they would become polychromic voices explaining lives only hinted at in brown,
stories of the humankind, unlike ours, so like ours,
affinities converging in
creation, with the
promise of
what is
to
be.