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Promethea

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Pro`me´the`a
n.1.(Zool.) A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.
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Promethea sits in my lap a book that is a woman covered head to foot in a sheer veil her beauty, her scent intoxicating but her skin the touch of her just beyond my reach.
Reading Cixous in translation by Wing, Michelle / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
If you hike, in the fall and winter you may find some cocoons by shuffling you feet in the leaves under trees (luna moths), or by keeping tree branches between you and the sky and looking upward for bulges in the smaller twigs (cecropia, polyphemus, promethea - look in the reference books so you know what you can expect to see).
Be a moth-er by Meyer, Gladys L. / PSA Journal
 
 
 
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