These Women of Jazz: Celebrating Women's History Month

To all of the women who performed under conditions

 for which I am not adequately prepared...

I thank you.

Camille

  These Women of Jazz

These women of jazz

Billie,

Lena,

Ella,
Nancy,
 Eartha,
Jospehine

 and so many more
sing with swaggering hips and

music’s background sway

of lovers revolving through life’s door---

and strange fruit

swinging in concert with

their captors;

their men,

their music,

their life.

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