"Systems of Paths" by Endrit Ramku

Grapevine West High
Jan 14, 2025
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Updated: Feb 12, 2025

Prose-Poetry - Grapevine, Winter 24/25 Issue

We walk parallel lines and yet such perpendicular paths. At some point the lines intersect but you’ll never know when. It’s a system of equations with a solution undefined because X won’t tell you Y. Each equation will travel to different points and when the lines intersect, it makes X reflect on Y. Reflect on the path that it has traveled, each fluctuation, up and down. Which way will the line go now?

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