Two poems by Jennifer Givhan

Two poems by alum Jennifer Givhan (poetry, ’15) appear in Reservoir:

Inca Ice Maiden, Momia Juanita

Peru procession to Ampato

I’m left to sleep in a cave of ice,
my belly full of brittle chocolate
and llama meat like the privileged,

like a queen, fattened of gold,
my hair roped in a hundred gangly braids.
There was no path up

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