HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

<p>This much talked about place called Brooklyn New York was beyond Ma. Z's reach but she was determined that her daughter Josephine gets there by <em>'the hook and the crook'</em>. Mr. Leo assured her that when there in addition to singing in his clubs her daughter would <em>'cut'</em> records; her voice often likened to Sarah Vaughn's; <em>'better dan'</em> most would indignantly retort. For Ma. Z's part she was relieved that her daughter would be far away from the athlete to her <em>'the running boy'</em> the village's Great White Hope. Now Josephine struggling uphill amongst the debris and water knows that she should get her mind off her macabre past that's flashing before her. She fixates her eyes on the old woman Ma. Z standing in the middle of her storm ravaged home. She desperately wants one last chance to embrace and wish her Happy Mother's Day. Yvonne Jack is the author of Cheers Don't Push the Sister and The Last Four Months.  </p><p><br></p>