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ted nielsen was born in 1968 in Townsville, where he lived for just over three decades. He has been writing for over eighteen years and has published poems in small magazines within Australia and the United States. ted left North Queensland in early 1999 and currently lives near Coogee beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. His first collection, search engine, was published in 1999 by Five Islands Press as part of their New Poets program, and was Commended in the 1999 Anne Elder Award for Poetry. ted’s second collection, wet robot, was published by Vagabond Press as part of their Rare Objects series in 2001.

rain in marrickville, windows of the bus filmed with heat &
metaphysics, long list of regrets dragged behind your body like
the remnants of every shirt you ever owned, rag trade, street
signs, systemic un-becomings you acknowledge as you fall
asleep, orgasm-damp curls between your thighs, fingers
keeping your place, waiting for you to start again, inescapable
tradition you spend days reinventing, a kind of shuffle, mild
anxieties & the sheer exhaustion of it, a mood that isn’t sadness
but shares its timbre emerges from your skin, frame built from
the metaphors you wanted to avoid but couldn’t, not answers,
other questions, technologies of living with a lighter touch,
hand brushing hairs on your lover’s distant arm or your face
considered dispassionately, a physiognomy you entertain then
carefully discard, wrapped in motion, suspended, each breath a
little easier, faint taste of grief to embrace, streetlights,
marrickville, bus moving through the rain.