soft drinks, because here there's only pink lemonade.
their own way. They worked, but good riddance, I say.
rooms the better to support our sleeping.
adventuring again, both rescued from our solitudes.
Brett Foster is the author of two poetry collections, The Garbage Eater (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011) and Fall Run Road, which was awarded Finishing Line Press's Open Chapbook Prize. His writing has appeared in Boston Review, IMAGE, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Raritan, Southwest Review, and Yale Review. He teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature at Wheaton College. "A Marriage" is influenced by the medical struggles of older friends and family members, as well as the author's own season of sickness.