The author of this poem commented "This giant of a moth is a living surrealistic painting of the latest type displayed at the guggenheim. It could put Picasso to shame."
Light grey moth, jungle bred,
Giant of thy kind.
How did a Master's hand
Paint thee in modernistic forms
Aeons before their time?
Millions of tawny scales
Arranged in zig-sag abandon
Mold abstract designs upon thy parchment wings.
Surrealistic dreams
Which only art inspired by man
May urge upon a stiffened cloth.
1965. D. Gohla. Journal of the New York Entomological Society.
Light grey moth, jungle bred,
Giant of thy kind.
How did a Master's hand
Paint thee in modernistic forms
Aeons before their time?
Millions of tawny scales
Arranged in zig-sag abandon
Mold abstract designs upon thy parchment wings.
Surrealistic dreams
Which only art inspired by man
May urge upon a stiffened cloth.
1965. D. Gohla. Journal of the New York Entomological Society.