still life ⁽⁷⁾

Jujube May 3, 2026

They All Tried

They all tried the earthen vase, the pale sunlight, and even the blue on the wall. They all tried to hold us together. But we still manage to stand out, to reach far, to fall – because it’s fun this way. — Jujube

Jujube December 14, 2025

Afternoon Tea

the ceramic holds its breath let the flowers define the air sweetened conversations linger in the shadows asking the empty chairs who decides what moment lasts –Jujube

Jujube November 9, 2025

Still Life

You can almost hear it — autumn’s last gasp a pomegranate split open grapes hang low drowsy a pear half-turned to gold held by the brush silently resists decay — jujube

Jujube October 5, 2025

Still Life

Tipsy antiquity, barely holds the coolness of the gleam. Time lingers, soft as the evening’s breath. - Jujube

Jujube April 27, 2025

No Title

虚斋寂寂茶烟细， 小瓶斜插数枝梅。 An empty study, silent – tea vapor softly curls; Plum sprigs tilt in a slender vase. — Hallucinated by Deepseek

Jujube February 23, 2025

Still Life

time has acquired a stillness, the hour breathes over a wine jug, it’s late, the last blows have been traded, a clinch and a hang on the ropes before the bell—I give the world to anyone who wants it, let them be happy: — Gottfried…

Jujube August 2, 2024

To Mrs K

For magic surely lurks in this, A cake that tells of vanished bliss; A cake that conjures up to view The early scenes, when life was new; When memory knew no sorrows past, And hope believed in joys that last! – Helen Maria Williams “To…