Poetry
Poems by Christopher Leibow exploring memory, intimacy, dream logic, and the strangeness inside ordinary moments. A mix of lyric, surreal, and narrative work.
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insistent
insistentpink knowledge“lick my bloody lip.” desperate grace.A suitcase by the door. a child’s facestares through the window to a mirrorwithout a reflectiona promise of a life with less winter. O the gaze of…
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The Dead are Astonished
A poem that imagines the dead not as solemn, but astonished—light, laughing, and in awe—watching the living from a gentle distance.
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Sins of the Fathers – a poem
A haunting winter train ride leaving Kraków becomes a surreal meditation on inheritance, identity, and the strange tenderness of memory—where a grandfather’s stolen silver beard becomes a child made of breath and snow.
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the interlude: a poem
This poem traces a brief, aching love—from physical closeness and longing to the aftermath, where memory turns into a footnote and names become just names.
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Coming to America – a poem
Gravity-gravity brought my great-grandfatherto this country. It was my great-grandmother’swill, she who wrestled the moon changing tides, disturbing orbits.She brought him to America, and yet he never left GermanyAnd became a suit in…
