Academia / Odyssey / Lyric Essay by Jane Burn

Degna Stone Library, The Knowledge

A small sailboat sets off into a dreamlike horizon. faintly orange-lit clouds and the Milky Way perfectly reflected in the still waters

Courage is multiplex. Part of courage is admitting what you do / do not know; courage is vulnerability before that which you greatly desire; courage is offering your underbelly to anomaly’s mercy. Courage is scrambling those acclivitous hills – each summit equating where you deserve / where you have fought to be. Academia is negotiation of cryptic terrain. The walls …