The Memphis Nightclub Murders & Other Poetic Mysteries is a collection of short stories in poetic form remotely based on legends, folklore, history, and serial crimes, elaborated and expanded into uniquely fictitious accounts. The collection features a trilogy of murder mysteries set in Memphis, Tennessee, of late 1950s.


Rhymes on Rye No. 1-32

As bawdy the crass sax, or perhaps paramours' brass sex

Words form then stack, betwixt thighs' impasse vexed

He her rex and she his text, the poet's verse un-tersely

Pretzel'ing below the canopy's white lace so transversely


Whiskey arouses souls, like bloody tattoos incite flesh

By ills in thrills enmeshed, as chaff-n-wheat pre-threshed

So are facts killed, else skewed, by inebriation's effects

Too wrecked to judge, to deflect nudges then neglects


Silk lilts then saunters, off back, over left shoulder

Baton'ed by airy symphony, while moods wax bolder

Crooning from gulf to bluffs, along hips 'neath slip

Lips to flesh, sips of sweat, enmeshing in odic scripts