Silkworms

Silkworms

Dr Abe V Rotor

"Painfully delicate and surprisingly strong, silk resembles love... But eventually, for the silk to survive, the silkworm had to die."

 — Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

 

Silkworms, composite relief painting by AV Rotor

To the lowly insects, don't belie:

the purest cloth is silk.

the sweetest sugar honey,

brightest light from the firefly. ~