Myth has it …

an ancient sphinx long ago posed the riddle
whose answer all who heard were already living.

More recent wisdom emboldens one to “live the questions now”
so to grow and embody the answers tomorrow.

These days, by Little Crum Creek, a Nessus sphinx moth (Amphion floridensis)
suspends the lesson between a beckoning lilac and its transfixed observer,

unfurling a feeder toward ephemeral blooms before the season passes.

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