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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Issue 29: | August 2025 |
| Micro-Poem: | 47 words |
By Daryl Scroggins
Broken Goddess
—After Fragment of a Statue of Venus
Missing most of what it once was and yet—all details holding forth the full presence. Fractal in its singular multitude of form. Cloth of stone. Fit for a face to weep into.
Fragment of a Statue of Venus (marble, ancient Roman, circa 1 CE–200 CE) is on view in Gallery 152 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Image was downloaded from the AIC website under CC0 1.0 Universal license (link retrieved on 23 July 2025):
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/40164/fragment-of-a-statue-of-venus
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