About Marriage
If this bed is the tracks I’m tied to, you
can’t be lax at this crux of our junction.
You must be able, like a wolf, to smell fear,
to leer like a wolf at the length of my legs.
These are the legs that got me here.
These are the teeth I use to bite you,
or rather used, when I used to bite you,
leaving you bruised in little heart shapes
on your vocal box. What can I say?
Tonight is the happiest day of my life.
—Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
About the Author
Elisa Gabbert is the author of Thanks for Sending the Engine and My Fear of X. She is also coauthor, with Kathleen Rooney, of Something Really Wonderful and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness.
Kathleen Rooney is the author of Reading with Oprah and is the founding editor of Rose Metal Press. Her first book of poems, Oneiromance (an epithalamion), is forthcoming in fall 2008.
