I recall Dayton, Ohio. The alleyways in back of vacant houses. Recall Ohio with the Heart of the Miami Valley. Dayton, Ohio ~ My mother’s hometown.

Wright-Patterson Air-force Base where Mable met Edward, Freeing her from strutting Jim-Crow every day torments, misery, agony, murder. Daily degradation, Escape is imminent. Mable was Harlem bound.

Tornado swept clean. Where have the Ohio Players gone? Recall Ohio sitting on the porch with Grandma Hattie watching time stand still.

Recall Ohio as a firstborn from New York. I see Dayton, Ohio through the eyes of the Prodigal daughter who never returned.

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