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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Sepulveda – a poem
This poem traces the uneasy space between longing and fear—the rising water in the shower, the anxious dog, the coyote under a streetlight, and the trembling that comes when memory and anxiety won’t…
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Fidelito – a poem
Fidelito follows a young Cuban exile who trades baseball dreams for illegal card games, lost Havana nights, and forbidden love. This Cuba poem blends longing, history, humor, and heartbreak into the story of…
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Blurring the house – a poem
It’s August captures a young father mowing the lawn, children tangled in summer flowers, and a hidden figure smoking in the house. This poem reveals the quiet complexity of early family life and…
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At Sea – a poem
A surreal dream poem where a lover wakes clutching a whalebone as the bedroom floods into a dark sea, haunted by mermaids, a distant buoy, and the fading light above deep water.”
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[Say that I am welcomed, that I have gone mad]
A luminous homage to Maria Elena Cruz Varela, this poem burns with tenderness and defiance—where love becomes both rebellion and prayer, and the body remembers freedom through its own light.
