![Skateboarding Dog and Squirrel Mural, Portland, OR](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MJB_DogSquirrel.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Pablo Gonzalez’s Dog and Squirrel Mural
The painter requests that you imagine / this other reality busting through
![](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/01_frank_photo.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Photograph from Robert Frank’s London/Wales
“Here is a question we all must ask: /
if we found ourselves below /
a London underpass on some sunlit /
morning or bright late afternoon /
in the decade after the war”
![Jitish Kallat, "Annexation" (detail)](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_1923.png)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Jitish Kallat’s Annexation
I’m trying to glide / through the halls of the museum / like a low-budge pixelated ghost.
![Albert Bierstadt, Mount Hood (1869)](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Mount_Hood_MJB.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Albert Bierstadt’s Mount Hood
Were it a religion or at least a lifestyle
I would like to be baptized into Luminism.
![Hour Hour Minute Minute (Alice Suret-Canale)](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/200w_d-1.gif)
Monthly Ekphrastic: GIF from Alice Suret-Canale’s Hour Hour Minute Minute
Large Disaster Small Disaster
![Constantin Brancusi, The Miracle (Seal [1]) Molly Jean Bennett](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Brancusi_1.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Constantin Brancusi’s The Miracle (Seal [1])
Like a slug erect
and slimeless.
![](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/03_Super_Mode_MJB.jpg)
Monthly Ekphrastic: Opening of Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound at the Museum of Arts and Design
However, it is Fragile and Unique
![](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/03_what.jpg)
![Lucy Sparrow's 8 'till Late](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/03_bodega_window.jpg)
![](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Peaceable-Kingdom_MJB.jpg)
![](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/shelf_full.jpg)
The Monthly Ekphrastic: Jessi Reaves’s Watertight Shelf With Zippers
![](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Friedman_5.jpg)
The Monthly Ekphrastic: Martha Friedman’s Two Person Operating System
My/Your Body Is and Is Not Like a Machine
![](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/artist_and_vacuum_detail.png)
The Monthly Ekphrastic: Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum
Poems in response to Kerry James Marshall’s Portrait of the Artist & a Vacuum
![](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Beeswax.jpg)
Bullets, Syphilis Cosmetics, and Archaeologist Cat Fights: Notes From My Saturday Afternoon
Coming face to face with the world historical forces of trade, technology, colonialism, and bureaucracy.
![](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/01_votive_hand.jpg)
Dick Pics for Sacred Healing: A Meditation on the Provenance of Objects
An investigation into the functionality and symbolism of a mysterious gold penis
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