Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street Address – From Pinterest
inelegant illness afflicts him
who bumps about corridors
rattling locks
with the bones in his tail
stalking for deer
with a rosin-swept bow
in the malformed aesthetics
of calabash pipe-smoke
tainted with henbane
that curls around houndstooth
staining the Inverness cape
knowing bliss has no keys
he kicks open doors
of two-cornered rooms
no doctor would bless
finding stairs Piranesi
could have designed
their paths up or down
all land the same place
where a grandfather clock
ticks the tempo of fear
and brocade paranoia
drapes barrister boxes
of leather-bound brains
and mementoes of sins
hiding fine-pestled clues
behind acid-etched glass
in plain sight
yet unseen
in differently hued
hallucinogens
that powder
alchemical bellies
of porcelain mortars
where hundreds of
gripping good crimes
would be solved
From my books City of Pawns and Legacies (vol. 1)
Poesy plus Polemics 