Michael S. Allen
It doesn’t take a bad day to know a good one; it takes a sunrise.
Now, somebody tell the horns this is the part where they come in.
Meet my newest book
Michael S. Allen’s sophomore published work, When the Butterflies Come Home, is an inspiring tribute to the art of remembering, forgetting, and storytelling. A soon-departing gentleman, Ray, offers to his grandson a final telling of the memories, thoughts, and poems that lie with him as he prepares for what comes next. In epistolary form, we learn more about the life of Ray, and reflect on the beauty and pain that comes with life, grace, and the pursuit of dying well.
“My advice to you, Izzy, is to fall in love with a set of eyes. Damn near everything about your grandmother changed from the day I met her to the day we parted, but the eyes that widened at my hello were the same ones that closed at our goodbye. And in the in-between they made me fall deeper in love every day.”