In a Sentimental Mood, by Siân Killingsworth

In a Sentimental Mood

Thin Lip presses down.
Fatty never had a chance.
Angels dry an eye.

Sunday dreams dried up.
A cold train collects you.
Song rasp sneaks away.

Who’s a sax? Oboe?
Blue notes bend over Manhat--
An old lonely night.

Siân Killingsworth 

Siân Killingsworth is a poet and copywriter. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as The Oakland Review, The Columbia Poetry Review, Mudfish, and Eunoia Review. She founded and ran the popular open-mic poetry reading series hosted by the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, where she worked on the staff of Lit. She lives in Northern California.