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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Have You Seen My Story?
A lyric essay about searching for a lost story through surreal visits to a friend, an old lover, and a mother who can no longer answer clearly.
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The Laundromat – a poem
SceneA lonely laundromat, brightly lit. A man stands at a yellow folding table near a large window. Clothes tumble behind the round glass of a mint-green dryer. Outside, a late-night freight train rattles…
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Grandfather ( From Blurring the House)
My grandfather’swatching Friday Night Fightson an old black-and-white20-inch television. He calls me over,pats the seat beside him,starts teaching methe finer points of boxing—uppercuts,jabs,the bob and weave. He cracks openhis one can of Coors.…
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Lovers in a Red Sky
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.—Marc Chagall And when theydiscover what we have done—what will they think of us? Will they knowhow much…
