Trapped in my Body. It’s been 2 months. I’m trapped in my body. I can barely walk. I can barely stand upright. I’ve done everything. The orthopedist doesn’t think surgery will help me. Muscle relaxers are a joke; they don’t even take the pain away anymore. I’ve gone to physical therapy, which only made it…
About a Friend You are music Swirls of energy dancing in lavender-colored spirals with vaporous entrails of winding, shimmering light Depositing bouncy vibrations of gold You are a Gregorian chant Deep tones of purple velvet Nestled among hues of indigo, crimson, slate, midnight, steel, & sienna, Converging and coalescing into One tone A benediction You…
A Short Poem: The Sioux believe that all Living creatures are temporary energy swirls. Two swirling spirals, the double helix, Dance into being And out again. (by: Robin J. Engel) The Good Seeds: Liliana stands at the precipice, shaking her fist in anguish at …something? …nothing? God, perhaps? Liliana: What is this void? I am…
“Heal the space”, the speaker said. I wonder what he meant by that? I am not a healer. I do not channel healing energy through me. I am one person, and what difference can that make when there are billions of souls? Don’t billions of souls have to heal the space at the same time?…
TRAVELER By: Robin J. Engel It is the year 2020. It is the time of Covid. I won’t be able to go to another country any time soon and I just got a new passport. I want a refund, or at least a few years added onto the 10 year renewal. I’ve never really fit…
A love story in prose. They walked hand in hand under the stars. They barely knew each other, but it mattered little. After a lifetime of love and loss, marriages and failed marriages, children, multiple career paths, family and friends, living in multiple cities, states, houses, apartments, and all the rest that makes a life…
They considered themselves to be an average American family. Louise and Jerome Williams had been married for 19 years. Louise had 1/2 of a college degree with no declared major, but quit to go to vocational school, which seemed more practical. Jerome had a bachelors degree and made enough money to support the family, buy…
Notes: I realize this is not a story about the Quarantine, or even about things that happened during the Quarantine. It is a story I performed at a story-telling event in Mesa, the night Before everything in my town was about to get shut down and go into quarantine. It was a very surreal moment.…
Wanderlust How do you contain the wind? Can you bottle it? Can you catch it in a net? And if you could capture the wind, the moment you opened the container, would it all seep out immediately, ecstatic to be free? Windrider was a free spirit, contained only by his physical body, not by rules…
The Farmer who Saved his Family John cranked up the tractor, momentarily wishing that it was quieter so he could enjoy the silence out in the field; alone with himself. It was another hot, dry day and the crops were on the verge of failing. He ignored the sweltering heat, and the sweat dripping into…