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Vol. VI · September 2026

The Trumpet by Kushal Poddar

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african musician playing trumpet in lagos

I search for the word

that may carry the weight

of the sadness the trumpet generates.

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Autumn arrays a ring of the arid leaves

and instructs them on how to dance.

The wind liberates the leaves

from the calender’s spine.

There goes my rest of the year.

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I want to say the right ward, boy,

but when you lowered your trumpet

only tears caress my face.

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