Shiver (6 mins.) is a dreamlike meditation on Ophelia, the main character in Natasha Trethewey’s poetry collection, Bellocq’s Ophelia. The poems contain the imagined thoughts of one of the young prostitutes photographed by E. J. Bellocq in 1912 who worked in a brothel in the Storyville section of New Orleans. The aural relationships in my composition unfold as a tableau using the consciousness of dreams, memories, and reveries described in French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s last work, La Poétique de la Réverie (1960). This work was commissioned by the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios in commemoration of its 50th anniversary celebration.