Red Shift
At the edge
of sense you
sense the pause
that shifts, you
push on it
to stop it
more, you've enchanted
the torturer with
your short songs
sounding like to
shorten time is
what songs are for
Brenda Hillman’s poetry collections include Loose Sugar (Wesleyan,
1997) and A Geology (Wesleyan, forthcoming). She has edited
an edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry (Shambhala Publications, 1995),
and has co-edited, with Patricia Dientsfrey, New Writings on Poetics
and Motherhood (forthcoming). Hillman serves on the faculties
of St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA; Squaw Valley Community of Writers;
and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Among the awards she has
received are Fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.
