Poetry, Visual Art

A soft rain falls on all the 7-11s of Omaha

May 5, 2025 /

A soft rain falls
on all the 7-11s

of Omaha

and the hum
of the Slurpee
machine lulls

Marjorie asleep
while the moon
parked above

the parking lot

also shines
on the fat

cheeks of her
baby girl, asleep

in her mother’s lap

across town and
in this still moment

for one eternal

second all is right
and just

in the world.

Christopher

Christopher Leibow is a poet, visual artist and a sensei is a lay minister with Bright Dawn Way of Oneness Buddhism and is the sensei and founder of the Salt Lake Buddhist Fellowship which he has led for ten years. He has had his art and poetry published international. He lives in Salt Lake City and spends his time with his two youing boys Teague and Ronen