World History. What the course title means: Whisperings in

Xylography. Gambles and losses—like yearnings in braille—

You will be asked to finger, sound out, unveil. No summit, no

 

Zenith, no  

Alignment of planets guaranteed. Nothing in stone. You are 

Buying a home someone died in: Curie, Copernicus, El Cid.

Chronicles disinterred: The wisdom of the renegade, the rebel kid.

Days passed in a Provost’s calendar will be proof you endured.

Endurance as in epic songs. Longings, self-makings, upendings.  

Finishings like beginnings, underdog odds. The heretic, the face of

God.