A Mothra is an accidental poetry form invented while messing about with Abracadabra, writes Beth Hartley. It is an advancing and receding form that makes a moth-like shape.
In the first stanza, lines increase from one word in the first line, two words in the second, three in the third and so on until eleven words. The second stanza falls from eleven words in the first line to one word in the final line in the same manner.
The name Mothra was suggested by our friend Matthias Ediger as it was a moth shaped poem about space, therefore a space moth.
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