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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I will draw two ravens – a poem
I Will Draw Two Ravens is a poem about intimacy and the simple, vulnerable moment when one person asks another to open themselves to connection. It captures the directness of desire, the quiet…
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[My heart moves forward into the light]
A quiet meditation on love’s endurance and transformation. In My Heart Moves Forward into the Light, Chris Leibow writes of patience, absence, and the soft gravity that pulls us toward one another. The…
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Abandon – a peom
INTRO: This IS aN ecstatic AND tender piece I WROTE SOME YEARS AGO ABOUT letting go—about two people abandoning every rule, expectation, and old life to build something new together. It moves…
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New Chapbook
In Gray’s Anatomy, Chris Leibow transforms the clinical illustrations of Henry Gray’s 1918 anatomical atlas into haunting meditations on memory, loss, and the body’s hidden geographies. These ekphrastic poems resist simple description, instead…
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Caught – a poem
I am caught —deep — in the lieof her, in the nakedand vulnerable — in the lengtheningoutof her — caught — in the tangleandthicket — caught by the full moonbetween shadows under…
