Mary and Me

Jon Shorr

 
 

A week before my wedding, a package arrived at my Oxford, Ohio apartment from a New York jewelry store. In it, a sterling silver frame that held an 8x10 black & white photo of Broadway star Mary Martin and her husband Richard Halliday on their wedding day.

 

Cows

Wendy Cleveland

 

I pass the farmhouse and fields of cotton
anchored in drought-stricken soil.
Across the road in front of a small barn
they stand in the middle of the pond,

 

Box World

Lucy Zhang

 
 
 

my aunt has many treasured memories
that she never fails to tell me, eyes crinkled
in corners
fingers pinching skin gently with
an age-old fondness.