Poetry

The E-books below are free to download just click on either the image or the title. However, if you want to print either of the E-chap books, please use the order link and send me 5 US dollars for each book or click on the PayPal button. After I receive the cash, check or money order, I will email you the password which will enable you to print it.

Please check back because this page will be updated on a regular basis as I hope to be able to continue to write small bi-monthly chapbooks for quite some time. The poems appear in the chapbooks in the order they were written. Finally as the poems are published in E-zines or magazines I will list the places they can be read.

One of my poems has been published in an anothology, "In Our Own Words Volume 6". This link is to the anthology's website.

Also several of my poems have been published in the ezine Ken*Again. This is the link to the website.

I have 6 poems appearing in volume 6 of Omega this month. 3 or 4 years ago I also published several poems in volume 2 of Omega. This link will take you to the first page only. There are several more.

This August I attended a conference in Prague, when the book of published papers I will post a link to the reading I gave entitled Over the Snickering Cat Sills.

Contents: Resignation, Another day of a life spent in Hell, The Last Waltz, Climbing, The Changeling, The Dissapearing Trick, The Letter Home, You don't have to Sing every Bone, On Looking Through Apartment Ads, This is how you make a Sandwhich, The Transmigration, The Returning, The Very Stupid Prince, The Vanquished, The Optometrist, The Trouble of Chairs, The survivor, The Crashing, That Place, Endings, The Facet of Faces, Those Last Silent Words, A Hesitant Eulogy, The Cutlery Factor, Wistful Recall, Back, Jack, For the Lack of Something New to say, Migration, Staying in Strange Places.

Contents: Bone Sugery; The Thing I like the Most about You is saying Goodbye; Somewhere; Poetaster; Glucosal; The History in the Sky; They're Out There Conspirarcy Theory #405; The Siren's Lure; The Reason I Don't Draw People; Blue; The Countdown; 6 years later; Everytime You do something you Hate you drag the world that much closer to Hell; Afterburn; The Golden Hours; After the Sleepless Hours; Scammers; A Modest Resource Proposal; Donuts; Insanity; Hair Bread; The Grand Illusion; Impatience; If; Scarecrows; Rememberance; The Spectrum; Some Thoughts After Looking at some WWI Photos; Serving Suggestions: Toss Raisins Over Cereal; Somedays I look in the Mirror & Wonder.

Cover Art: Isolation

Leavings of the Previously Departed published by Ken* Again 2007

A Repedium of Bones

Contents: The True State of Affairs; Decay; Dust Bunnies; Homeless; Writing Poetry in Hell; Interviews; Lorraine's Saturday Drive; Wasps; Telephoning the Dead; The Eater of Bones; The Call of the Soil; My Debate to Leave or Stay in Japan; Our Favorite Practicle Joker; Captured; Promise; The Interloper; An Interruption; Ouroborossed; American Fossils; The Rebellion; The Fuse has been Lit; The Embarassment Factor; Moribund; Stay tuned to Find out just how Jellybeans Plan to take over the Whitehouse by Lodging themselves down you know Who's throat; Mr. Evil's Evil Vacation; Aftermath; Mr. Bone Man; My Dilemma; Moanin'; The Haunted One

American Fossils accepted for the winter edition of The Cherry Blossom Review

Contents: Space Arrivals; Doorways; Waiting; We Live on the Edge of the Miraculous; Fading, Fading; Leavings of the Previously Departed; Cleaning the Corners; Creation is a Kind of Insanity; Nothin is Secure; Yes this Poem is about You; Mr. ...'s Life; Adolph Eating; Today's Ominous Number; Wolfie; Tightrope; Catching Snowflakes; The Leap; A No Rhyme Poem for Taylor; Packing; Saying Goodbye; Alligators; What if; Training; Beyond the Valley of the Moon; Acceptance; The Wave; Sometimes One Just has to Laugh; Go Forth; The Bus Ride; Step right up Mr. 409 congradulations you made it

Leavings of the Previously Departed published by Ken* Again 2007

The Leap accepted by Trillium 2007

Contents: Caught in Absurdity; Nothing is Spared; The First Poem of Winter; The Path of the Dead; The Other Path; Looking for Mr. 85; It's Started; That New Reality Show; A Philosophical Question; The Unwanted Destination; The 86th Degree; A Short Pause; Waiting for the Final Exit; There is Nothing Quite so Difficult as Getting Up on a Dead Autumn Day; How to Answer Them; Persistence; A Moment of Cowardice; The Day at St. John's Lutheran Elementary School I Actually Learned Something; Dejection; Those Lucky Bastards; Death Comes as a Relief; Dead Lines; The Bird and the Cat; Exhaustion; What Makes Us so Unique; The Absurdity of Facts; The Living Night Day; My Wings; Around the Haunted Corner

Cover Art: The Surrounding (pencil sketch reversed in Adobe Photoshop).

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Contents: On this glorious rain; Purpose; An Appologetic Eulogy; We all settle for something in the end: The Forgetting; A more than silent Desperation; Will the real Cleopatra please Shut Up; Everybody should have a pair of headphones; Everybody's Suffering; & Just when you thought you reached a New Low; All these things to thank; You Wendell Charles, Russel and I; After the Ever After; Death Meditation; Just a Friendly Reminder; Definately in the Eye; I can feel myself falling into a cold; The Holidays are coming; Boxtops; Contrary; Another one of those Childhood Memories; In Reply to Emily; There once was a man from Holland who was not in a limerick but should have been; Nowhere; Sometimes it is good not to see; A thank you gift for finally splashing some water down the garden's parched throat; Christmas is coming the goose is getting worried; Next time do me a favor and stay out of my dream; There are so many things we can do nothing about.

Cover Art: Static Longing (Charcoal and pencil sketch -- detail).

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Contents: The Empty Corridors of Dust; Morning Insecurities; A Solstice Obituary; The Parental Argument; Reasons for Being; in the postbox of consciousness; Morning View; Drowning on Land; Mr. Conservative's Philosophical Radio Pontification; The Homeless One; The Performance; After the Rains; Cantaloupe; Alive in the Moment; Requiem for 1950 Dreams; Certainty; This Tired Stupidity; Listening Quiet; Shat Upon; The Waste; Assholes World Wide Inc.; And They Lost the War; Terrorist Weapons; Waiting for Light; Guitar Lessons; Dancing on the Edge of the World; Upon Rereading the Hobbit Some 10 Years Later; Ultimately We All Know How this Will End; It's Not that We are sometimes Alone; Watching Mr. Dead Eat.

Cover Art: Quiet Fall Detail.

The Parental Argument published by Quill and Ink, 2006

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Contents: Touch Earth; The Home in the Mind; The Longing; Holmsemania; Gelding; Monsieur Malnuit; Doppleganger; In the Bones; The Human Condition; Small Joys; Rememberance of Rains Past; This Future; The Floutist; The Ties to this World; to become one of Them; My Life With Trees; Prison Planet; Cloud 7; The Enigma; The Patriotic Farmer; not quite buried; On the Verge of the Mircaulous; The Pet; The Undynamic Trio; Lies; Reality?; Static Longing; Earth to Houston We Have a Problem; the stampede; Down the Tracks.

Cover art: The Proud One

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Contents: Guilt, Stymied, Rejections, Why Mr. Nice is Always So, The Event, Post Thoughts on a Childhood Toy, The Interview, No More Porky Pig for Me, The Ever Changing Night 1, The Exorcism, Nobody Would Want to be Me, Impossible Imaginings, The Ever Changing Night 2, A Not So Happy Ever After Ending, In, The Ceremony, Nichole's Creek, The Bridge, Hotdogs, Insomnia, Mr. Bill, Them, Electroshocking, Exhausted, Tulips, Reasons for Walking, Mud, The Broken Ones, The Dead Live, The Solution.

Cover: The Ever Changing Night, pencil sketch, reverse image from Photoshop.

The Broken Ones published by Quill and Ink 2006. Why Mr. Nice is Always So published by Poetry Express 2007. Guilt published by Ken* Agaom 2007

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Contents: After the year; into Eternity; Doorways; The Anticlimax of Christmas; The truth is indeed OUT there; Questioning the Scales of Worth; This Insane Blue Orb; The Gardener's Vista; Peeling; The Deep; Then & Now; After the Almost; & into Clouds; Fading; The Conspiracy; Walking; The Etheral Sea; What Really Happened to Your Childhood Heroes; The Dance of the Dead; One of those unwanted Jobs I wasn't Hungry Enough for; About Sam's Ham; Umbrellas; Even Demons Dream; Awakening; Impatience; Yawping; The Quickening; The Foundation.

Cover: First Fall

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Omega; The Passive House, The Green Day; How to Murder Erato et al; Ova Portrait; Possibilities of the Infinite; The Days of Acquisition; The Mind is a Dangerous Place; Ancestral Pleasures; Bones; The Needle; The Empty Yellow House; Weeds.

Cover art: Imperfection (pencil sketch on A4 paper)

All art work and poems copyrighted 2005 by EP Allan.

The poems: The Green Day; Possibilities of the Infinite; Ancestral Pleasures and Weeds has been accepted by Ken* Again for its fall 2005 issue.

Anything to put off the desperation of an Empty page; Closet Captured; The Black Trucks (Matsuyama, Sept. 2); Death Travels Through Mirrors; The Rains Held up Kansas; Purgatory; Still in the night; Leaving; The Shadow's Smile; The Day the Oil Ran Out; Somedays everything goes wrong; Over-packed; All my images have fled; Bedlam; To study the child is to know the parents; Is this living; We all do the same tired old thing day after repetitive ditto; The joy of traveling; Death makes all Equal but some Achieve Equality Quicker; Everything is political; Morning sky blank mind; Mr. Orange Vs. the incredible Dr. Frankenjuicer; The haunted one; We have come full circle; Faux Pas; All those little irritating things which make you want to scream; After the travel; Practicing for the big good-bye; waiting; The Argument.

Contents: There is something Desperate about a Warm November Day, Today I will not Write about Death, We built our house of cards, Anger, The Optimist, Masquerade, Not 1 Interesting thing happened, Our little lives float on the winds of Improbability, Everybody Loved Mr. Toad, The Shattered Securities of Dream, Death Travels through Mirrors, Reaching the End of another notebook, The Meaning, Beyond the moon the skies sleep, The Dead do not, So Many ways to Quit, It's not Quite yet Time, Over the snickering cat sills, History-less, A Letter to Santa Claus, The Toasted Pillows of Sleep, Waiting for Day, Resolute, Discarded, The Theater is closed, The Percusional Metal Heart, Under the Aeolian Sky, Yes You are Listed, Delusions?, the Rats of Hell, Winter Solstice.

Cover Art: "The Anatomy of Despair" pencil and charcoal sketch.

Over the snickering cat sills, The theater is closed and Under the Aeolian Sky published by Ken* Again.

Our little lives float on the winds of Improbability: Dispatch 2006

The Rats of Hell: Omega 6

There is something Desperate about a Warm November Day: Quill and Ink 2006

All poetry and Artwork copyrighted 2005.

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