Paprika Xu

Designer / once led product design at Canva / now part of Common 而間, a small co-op with heart / growing a root in exile, tending gardens in Lutruwita / sensing threshold, whirls me in common spirals / remembering breath, a short talk of faith

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Haiku 10

June 24, 2024 10:45pm
For G, who left

without poetry

Depth of an union

feasting on a fleeting light
return it in time

What i’m grateful for

a riddle of liquid fate
pour me what’s once yours

With some luck, i trust

a heart half-open, but grows
each line as I wrote

What audacity

measuring in an hourglass
what futures mightn’t hold

We yearn with ardor

in the presents of endings
become who we are

Haiku 09

December 28, 2018
Go on a clear day

taking a sparse point of view

reasons of being blue

Haiku 08

Oct 4, 2023 12:12am
directionless like
a locrian fugue with no flat
dissonant but rare

diminishing like
a sine wave army of my
destroyed chromatic

Haiku 07

Vigilant perhaps
Out of shower, out of rain
Negligently synced

Haiku 06

Cow photo frames lie
side by side, conversations
Wool socks, smoky hair

Haiku 05

Dec 7, 2019
Troubles are weekdays
cruising into the weekends
staying with the trouble

Haiku 04

Jan 29, 2020 @London
Take your place in this
city of sadness under
spinning silver eye

if you ask me why
the peasants sing and poets cry
a lie, is a lie

Haiku 03

Two parts of the same
self fulfilling prophecy
to quit / not to quit?

Haiku 02

Jul 26, 2019
Lately, winter blooms
Black beans grow in my bedroom
Gentle cracks - feelings.

Things that connect us -
I am ready to receive
Sundown, whales dreaming.

Three years a spiral
I don’t know what I have missed
Hugs, apologies.

Tunnel ends, lights on
Apocalypses. Lean in -
Breaking open me.

Haiku 01

Oct 15, 2018
So the days went by
As my aura learned sovereignty
A hole, an entry

Music

LANTAU 爛桃 (EP)

Poems

Haiku
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

Interpretation

A Bleary Elapse (回忆模糊推演)