Alan Chong Lau's painting for the Year of the Rabbit
sent to Bob & Susan
via mail art
Alan & Kazuko still live at the same address
where we went to visit and stay with John Levy
Seattle 1979 ~
When John moved out, A & K moved in
No fuss, no muss
We went back some years later and arrived at dawn
too early to knock at any apartment door
so we walked the pleasant neighborhood
and called all the house cats from their porch stoops,
many came!
Then we went to knock at Alan and Kazuko's door
but Alan had already left for his job
at a grocer's, so we bid Kazuko good morning
and headed down into the city, and there
was Alan, poet/artist, working in the vegetable bins
We had a grocer's visit with Alan ~
Some years later published this booklet
of poems and drawings from Alan's grocer ways ~
we have all his paintings that were gifted to us
now in frames
Alan's Longhouse booklet
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