August 16, 2025, entered in Mark Toney's 2025 Poetry Marathon Mile 8
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On Christmas Eve in nineteen thirty-three, a friendly visitor in Willoughby* became the center of a mystery of a bizarre and shocking tragedy . Bystanders said this girl, all dressed in blue— before they could react—just walked onto the railroad tracks, of which she had clear view. Why did she die, this girl just passing through? Attempts to learn her name were all in vain. Loose coins and a ticket for the train to Corry** in her purse did not explain who she WAS. An enigma, she’d remain. Townspeople pooled their money to provide a funeral. She was identified as “girl in blue.” Their conscience is their guide; fresh flowers for her grave are still supplied. The caring citizens of Willoughby would not find out till nineteen ninety-three the tragic girl in blue’s identity. That ticket in her purse became the key. The Corry records proved the family of Josephine Klimczak owned property in Warren County. Though the mystery was solved. “The girl in blue,” she’ll always be. Of those three thousand locals who went to that funeral, there would be very few still living when discovery of who she was came out—that unique girl in blue. *Ohio
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