"We spend so much time on trains and subways that I can't resist sneaking in some sketches. I love the ephemeral moment when we as strangers on this earth get to spend mere seconds or minutes together sharing space before dispersing and never meeting again." In This Single Road, poet and painter Alan Chong Lau opens his Kyoto journals to us, inexpensive pocket notebooks filled with quick sketches, poems, and fragments of daily life. Many of these moments return as watercolor postcards sent to friends, so what begins in private observation becomes a quiet act of generosity, a way of keeping connection alive through art. Echoing the haibun tradition of Basho and Santoka, This Single Road is less a travelogue than a record of engagement, intimate and playful, a lifelong conversation with place, with practice, and with Kazuko, his companion in life and art.