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Blue Note
Lolita Stewart-White (bio)
For Ernest Hunter of Savannah, Georgia
What must it have been likefor a colored man to love his woman in 1958?His heart broken open,his words choked back,stifled by the heat from an indifferent Georgia sun.He hummed his blues for her,moaned under the blows of a billy clubuntil his very last note.
Until his very last note,moaned under the blows of a billy club,he hummed his blues for her,stifled by the heat from an indifferent Georgia sun.His words choked back,his heart broken open,For a colored man to love his woman in 1958,that's what it must have been like. [End Page 79]
Lolita Stewart-White
LOLITA STEWART-WHITE is a poet and playwright who lives and works in Miami. She is a Cave Canem fellow, Pushcart nominee, and winner of the Paris-American Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Boston Review, The African American Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Stewart-White is a part of City Theatre's Homegrown Playwrighting Program which nurtures and supports Miami's BIPOC playwrights. Her play "7" received its world premiere at the Adrienne Arsht Center's "Summer Shorts."