Yes, evocative of memory.
The title is something of an anachronism. Idiomatically, Jitterbug was not so much the name of a dance, but a verb:
Do you know how to jitterbug?
or a noun for a kind of dancer: a jitterbug.
So anyway, I think the title ought to be Jitterbugs. They are a pair. And L14 tells us that all is not hunky dory.
I agree with Cathy that the language could be tightened. how 3 times in L7-L9 is too many. now in L6 doesn't work. Neither does the obvious replacement, then. Some get around is necessary here. The sense should refer to the past, even though what is described is a memory, presumably in the fictive present.
I have this first of the 4 so far on poetic effect, with points off for technical merit.
— Woody
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