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...