The large Pavonia or Saturnia Poem by Giampiero Neri

The large Pavonia or Saturnia
the Atropos butterfly and other nocturnal species
are notable exemplars of mimeticism.
Partly, they adapt to the ambience
by darker and more intense
grey brown color on the wings.
But also by unbroken marks
recurring there in the shape of circles
and in regular patterns.
One comes across a symmetry
at the origin of these embellishments;
a preordained scheme
moves both whoever seeks
and whoever has interest in not being known,
a correspondence in the end.