Memphis Nightclub Murders & Other Poetic Mysteries

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. 132As bawdy the crass sax, or perhaps paramours brass sexWords form then stack, betwixt thighs impasse vexedHe her rex and she his text, the poets verse un-terselyPretzeling below the canopys white lace so transverselyWhiskey arouses souls, like bloody tattoos incite fleshBy ills in thrills enmeshed, as chaff-n-wheat pre-threshedSo are facts killed, else skewed, by inebriations effectsToo wrecked to judge, to deflect nudges then neglectsSilk lilts then saunters, off back, over left shoulderBatoned by airy symphony, while moods wax bolderCrooning from gulf to bluffs, along hips neath slipLips to flesh, sips of sweat, enmeshing in odic scripts