15

Ingrid Jendrzejewski

South of summer
I lay in high grass

the end of a tremble
confident fifteen


Note: this poem was made out of 15 words chosen from William Stafford’s poem, “Fifteen” from The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems, Graywolf Press, 1998.


Ingrid Jendrzejewski studied creative writing and English literature at the University of Evansville before going on to study physics at the University of Cambridge. Her poetry can be found in the 6th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Collection, cattails, and The Mainichi. Recently, she won the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize for Flash Fiction. Ingrid very occasionally tweets from @LunchOnTuesday and has soft spots for Go, cryptic crosswords and the python programming language.

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