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James A. Emanuel

Stairstep music: ups,
downs, Bill Robinson smiling,
jazzdancing the rounds.

She raised champagne lips,
danced inside banana hips.
All Paris wooed           Jo.

Banana panties,
perfumed belt, Jazz tatooing
lush ecstasies felt.

Josephine, royal,
jewelling her dance, flushing
the bosom of France.

© 1991 James A. Emanuel. All rights reserved.
From Jazz From the Haiku King | Broadside Press, 1999
Reprinted by permission of the author.

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