Michael Allyn Wells

They block the solar waves of summer pounding the earth like arrows and hold onto me by a plexus mass spreading like a cancer through ...

What's going on in his miniature mind another day of rehab by 10 pm he is as worn as any of us His eyes will acknowledge me but t...

"I cannot expect to grow as a  writer  staying in areas of comfort. One does not explore in comfort, one soaks in it like a leasur...

On a lesser day I’d be working with the masses and you would not be privy to what I am saying— but a lesser day this is not. Today I ho...

The knots are tight laced lies that hug her waist she sees them for what she wants to make of them one day blunders another she bla...

The rain slipped past us like a line cutter and puddles glare upward frown and all It was a day that stuck me in the eye with th...

The flames rise on either side of the curves and the fall wind threatens to spread the colors about the ground. The asphalt with sha...

A few bit and jottings from my journal recently... vases stand tall/and empty on coffee tables/that seem lost without coffee./green pla...

Bumper Sticker seen tonight on car in Target parking lot:  Spiritual people inspire me / Religious people scare me. Few Journal Bits this...

Back home after a whirlwind trip to St Louis to See Daughter #2.  Haven't done a Journal bits post in a while....  A few things from thi...

Ornamental excuses abound. Window dressings, all of them to purchase the justification necessary to have his way when validation was a rabbi...

Technorati Tags: Poetry , Johnson County Library , Michael Wells , CD Monday, September 8, 7:00 at The Johnson County Library, 8975 W. 87t...

An Audio Link of the revised version of Siblings.

My Second Annual Poetry Month broadside is still available.... email me with name and address to receive a copy.

I did it.... I'm confessing and hopping to climb back on. My daughter and her new fiance flew in to town Thursday evening and just left ...

A spiked presence— Before my eyes A star with supplementary credentials Far more prickly a presence A perverse way of making points And over...

Accessorizing The shuffle of shoes— Black pumps, red sling backs; The ruffle of the lips— Earth tone hikers and aqua fluff flops… Just a few...

Untitled Uncorked and non-confrontational An evening slumping gingerly Into shades of melancholy Befriends me and embraces The many reasons ...

In Your Head Allowed into your imagination I wandered, surveying foreign landscape It was one of your shadow boxed thought That informed my ...

Split Blue eyeliner Lowered in sadness Told just enough To know he left Again The details Were insignificant