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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 31: Jan. 2026
Poem: 58 words
+ Visual Art: Photograph
Poem by Marjorie Maddox

Photograph by Paola Jo Corso

Rhythms of Diamond Lace

—After the image by Paola Jo Corso*
 
An eye can only travel 
so far until it lights 
on the shimmer 
that lures inspiration 
as in here 
and a few steps higher here, 

as in Pittsburgh 
where you can’t help 
but climb all that ascends, 
steel and light stretched 
like molten, then 
stitched to air. 


Rhythm of Diamond Lace: B&W photograh © by Paola Jo Corso
*Rhythm of Diamond and Lace (B&W photograph) from
the series In Step, copyrighted © by Paola Jo Corso.
All rights reserved. Appears here with artist’s permission.

 

Bio: Paola Jo Corso

Bio: Marjorie Maddox

 
 
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