Worlds Without

By N. Kay Kerr

N. Kay Kerr's Worlds Without is an inaugural collection of poems.  Eclectic thematically and stylistically, there is something to be found here for all readers.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: N. Kay Kerr
• Release date: Aug 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215332917

N. Kay Kerr

N, Kay Kerr is a whisper thin pen name that did not exist prior to the idea of publishing the poetry collection Worlds Without.  Born into the tail end of Gen X they have been around a few blocks and done quite a few things.  But the desire to keep this writing separate from their day job and any baggage of prior doings is... nontrivial.  Even if much of the writing is about, or heavily influenced by, the very same baggage.

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While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

WORLDS WITHOUT First edition.

August 30, 2023.

Copyright © 2023 N. Kay Kerr.

Written by N. Kay Kerr

Art by Desirée Kern

I grew up in a household that largely had poetry in place of music, my father having a love of literature and unable to carry a tune in a bucket. Even a bucket with a lid. This collection is dedicated to him.

It is as diverse and eclectic as I could make it in just under a year and a half of moderate isolation and otherwise fairly banal living. Love you Daddy, do try to keep your thumbs attached.

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Special thanks to Noam and Meg

(I have tried my best, but as things stand the print version is the preferred formatting)

Worlds Without

Table of Contents

Worlds Without

Another Lock To Pick

Somnia

Body of Betrayal

Marred

DRF

Alive

Whetted and Worn

Gaslight

Lightning

Hope

Laughter

Warmth

Self Protective Pool

Snow

Castle

Synapse

Lift

Shadows

To Bed

Time Slips

Storm Watch

Barbed Wire

Paralysis

Breathe

Dog Hair

How To Fly

Poltergeist

Ver 1

Ver 2

Ver 3

Ver 4

Ver 5

Long Way Near

City Cantos

City Sky

City of Cranes

City Planning

Boxes

Fairy Cantos

Frostbite

The Fairy Queens

The Kings

Doors

The Court of the Winter, The Court of the North

The Cycle

The Magical Mister Underhill

Nettle, Thistle, and Thorn

Gown - Part I

Gown - II

Monsters

Night Market

Another Lock To Pick

Salty sweaty slick

Lick

Is this boredom or is it pleasure

Falling open under pressure

Heartbeat running quick

Tick

Holding still a lock to pick

Click

Tumblers falling into place

A touch, a look, a face

The hasp, it creaks and it rasps

Heaving, grinding gasps

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Cuts me to the quick

Flick

Clinging like a tick

Sick

And another lock to pick

Click

Click

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Brushing past within the throng

Within a group, so will be long

Lithe

Grinding, writhing dance

Looking back a second glance

Blithe

A touch, a look, a face

Tumblers falling into place

Cuts me to the quick

Nick

Don’t be such a dick

Ick

And another lock to pick

Click

Click

Click

Drilling down to the marrow

Dreaming of the time to harrow

Flesh

A craven urge so thorough,

To root along another furrow

Mesh

Heaving, grinding gasps

The hasp, it creaks and it rasps

Cuts me to the quick

Prick

Nothing seems to stick

Kick

Up against the brick

Thick

And another lock to pick

Click

Click

Click

Click

Tumblers falling into place

A touch, a look, a face

The hasp, it creaks and it rasps

The heaving, grinding gasps

Falling open under pressure

Is this boredom or