Lois Elaine Heckman

Distance's Numbness

So
far
away:
never heard
but in hurried words,
vaporizing into lost time;

never seen but in memories,
fooling the mind with
reveries
that leave
no
hope.

Bio

Lois Heckman grew up in Los Angeles and received a degree in Italian from UCLA. She has lived for forty-four years as an expat in Milan, Italy, becoming a volunteer nurse and first aid instructor for the Italian Red Cross. She has been published on The Shine Journal and won the 2010 New England Shakespeare Festival Rubber Ducky Sonnet Contest.

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