Author: Liz Axelrod

  • The Wait

    I’m waiting My existence running away at the mouth with foul words and thoughts of connections lost in the stratosphere of my minuscule patience. I wait and wonder at decisions made while razors slice the dead ends and I’m shiny and moist with electric strands rolling down my back. I wait and ponder thoughts of… →

  • Game Day

    I had my coat on                Ashes, ashes we all fall down The sidewalk Mica glistened Inviting trips through rabbit holes You came down the stairs looking perplexed– You leaving? Of course. The mason jars are empty and the waxing moon wants me to be alone. You don’t want this red peacoat on your bed.… →

  • To Assume A Pleasing Shape

    Brooklyn Rail – Jan 2012 by Liz Axelrod Joseph Salvatore To Assume A Pleasing Shape  (BOA Editions, 2011) An innate sense of sadness and joy runs through Joseph Salvatore’s To Assume A Pleasing Shape. Salvatore, an experimental fiction writer and creative writing professor at the New School (where, full disclosure, I met him through his teaching),… →