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Phillip A. Ellis is the editor of AustralianReader.com as well as a poet, critic and scholar. He has had a book of poetry, The Flayed Man: and Other Poems, published by Gary William Crawford’s Gothic Press, and a concordance of the poetry of Donald Wandrei published by Hippocampus Press. Phillip is finishing English Honours through UNE, as an external student.
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After the Rain of Cometary Fragments
After the rain of cometary fragments / had fallen, streaking sky with white blisters / of light so cold it seemed the sky had turned / to broken ice,...
13 March 1977
In this early half of autumn, / with the days falling inwards / into themselves towards the cold / fogs of winter, dreaming / and both barren and cold here, / you turn, at the end, and whisper lines.
An Alien Sea
The illimitable blackness of an alien sea greets my inner vision, a void unseen by any other eyes.
The Horrible Coma Call'd Living
Michael blinked, and the shadows receded to the spaces between the stacks, and along the exposed spines of the books. It was cold tonight, perhaps the heating had broken….
Adamant and Ice
How your heart is as adamant! Nothing shall mar it, nothing shall mark it.
In Mouseburg
In Mouseburg, / where the timid live, / the houses are tiny / as are the hearts / of those that live within.
