Michael Allyn Wells

Snowstorm - Maurice de Vlaminck There is harsh biting winter  with winds that cut  your cheeks, water your eyes blurring yo...

Starry Night By Alex Ruiz Where have I hid from the wonders. All above me the night is Calypso. I am Odysseus transfigured. ...

Lee Plaza Hotel, Detroit The floors crackle underfoot with each step onto particles of wall and ceiling concealing much of what...

It's morning you've got everything I've got nothing You've got work chatter at the water cooler lunch somewhere-  ...

Photo of Orson Welles provided by Tess Kincaid at THE MAG Along an egregious path  beset with noisy sociopathic notions, ca...

Puddle, 1952, M. C. Escher Likeness A puddle collective on the ground. Mirror images mired in detail reflective of all...

Still Life, 1670, detail by Jean François de Le Motte The notes, lists, inventory of thought and  miscellaneous, my refuge for in...

My memory of the neighbor girl is burrowed in the back of my mind. Tucked away all these years this 7 year olds crush, this awakening,...

photo credit: Bob Adelman, 1965 Through the eye's prism rows upon rows of Avant-Garde a canned future  handy in a m...

image: epic mahoney The future and history crash in a flat lined hub of fiber optic nowhere. The long gone party-lines, core...

She finds it exasperating she has the duty to be— the plastic clown the elastic   cheerleader the Wal-Mart...

The Surgeons Hands reaching skyward the chiseled hands cupped as a vessel yet extended in exaltation extended  ...

Utilitarian art boxes in Duffy square. Girders and panels rise poking the Troposphere. Windows offer a glimpse ...

The bent elbow slows progression- force builds pushing the river around over and beyond   the banks like claws snag what is deli...

Lunch Clock ticking 1800 seconds and ticking rows of busy heads bobbing and chewing throats likes snakes swallowing a rabbit who...

 How Size Matters a time a place to stop a sofa against a rock solid platitude on the main street of a life of o...

Company There they all are together in their aloneness. I wonder if they relish company? I mean aside from the cadence ...

The Gritty Facts There are vague memories some fond some not so. Much has changed. The delete key absolves a multitude of sins a...

Espresso Spoiled So many angles to consider. Some within others and building blocks to something bigger down the way something ...

There has been a lynching- Mass retribution for what I cannot say. Was it the down in the pillows? Not enough fluff? Whatever th...