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 in The Shine Journal,
Short, Fast, and Deadly, and Boston Literary Magazine, and will be forthcoming in Pemmican.
She is the proud winner of the 2010 New England Shakespeare Festival Rubber Ducky Sonnet Contest.
Scream
your
rage at
frustration:
it is the struggle
between wanting and rejection,
a tug-of-war that has no end,
binding fulfillment
to regrets,
desire
to
pain.