stormy weather

and we enter

another world

the dots of rain

between traveling umbrellas

the fractured patterns

of the crimson kimono

the twisted blue

of a strap

on a school girl’s backpack

the wet smack of feet

on a grey sidewalk

Alan Chong Lau

Alan Chong Lau is a poet and visual artist based in Seattle, Washington. He serves as Arts Editor for the International Examiner, a community newspaper. As a visual artist, he is represented by ArtX Contemporary in Seattle, Washington.

John Levy is a poet and photographer. In 2023, Shearsman Books published 54 poems: new & selected, works from 1972 to 2022. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Alan Chong Lau and John Levy have published three volumes of a poetry and photography collaboration that can be found by searching online for “eye2word.”