LITERARY EDITION SPRING 2023

Thursday, April 20, 2023 kentuckykernel

2|home

3|Chapter & Palm Springs

4|Queen of the Ashes & Chained Rock

5|it's okay, i'll protect you forever & Untitled art

6|Mountain top removal in Appalachia

7|invasive species & Vyn

8|to the bone & Untitled art

9|suffer the scarring

10|ducks! & Untitled art

11|A Summer Evening Nashville

12|If i may, i pray & Junk Drawer

13|Untitled art & to my favorite

14|Let's Be Kids Again&Untitledart

15|Islamaphobia & Intimacy

16|Jenna & Rancho Roses

On the Cover: Untitled art by Lucas de Lima | Sophomore, Architecture

HANNAH STANLEY | JUNIOR, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION not the house we grew up in or the one we pay rent to every month nor four walls with a roof over head or a bedroom with a door that locks

Not something to stay in or keep you trapped one spot for the rest of your life

A permanent taint to your name following you wherever you go an expense to never be written off something you can’t claim because it can dissipate in seconds foreclosed and forgotten leased to someone else and no longer called yours

A figment of my imagination never to become reality until you. the feeling in between your arms each second I cherish what I wish carried me everywhere I went the safety of your presence no matter the distance in each word you say in each wall you built to protect me something so delicate an existence I never had before what I wish to forever keep, never leased to someone else and no longer called mine an investment not an incidental permanent not rented something to call ours not mine