Author's note [appears at beginning of poem]: 'An ekphrasis on D.T. Malboeuf's She is Love, I Am Dust'.
Author's note [appears at end of poem]: 'This poem is an ekphrasis whose subject is a work painted in 1990 by Daniel Malboeuf, a surrealist based in North Carolina. The painting is not well known, but can be viewed online at the artist's virtual gallery, where he uses the screen-name 'kolaboy': http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/2881843/?qo='.