“A Moment Composed” 4×4, oil on canvas

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“A Moment Composed” is an original hummingbird oil painting on 4×4 in canvas that is 1.5 inches wide. I’ve painted the sides and the painting comes ready to hang. Additional shipping price includes shipping within the U.S.A. I ship every painting out of Covington, LA. For local pickup rather than shipping type code “localpickup” at checkout. 

The title of this painting comes from a poem by Mark Roper:

 

Hummingbird by Mark Roper

Not just how

it hung so still

in the quick of its wings,

all gem and temper

anchored in air;

 

not just the way

it moved from shelf

to shelf of air,

up down, here there,

without moving;

 

not just how it flicked

its tongue’s thread

through each butter-yellow

foxglove flower

for its fix of sugar;

 

not just the vest’s

electric emerald,

the scarf’s scarlet,

not just the fury

of its berry-sized heart,

 

but also how the bird

would soon be found

in a tree nearby,

quiet as moss at the end

of a bare branch,

 

wings closed around

its sweetening being,

and then how light

might touch its throat

and make it glow,

 

as if it were the tip

of a cigarette

smouldering

on the lip of a world,

whose face,

 

in the lake’s hush

and the stir of leaves,

might appear

for a moment

composed.