Bangladeshi-born Sujash Purna is a graduate student at Missouri State University. A poet based in Springfield, Missouri, he serves as an assistant poetry editor to the Moon City Review. His poetry has appeared in Naugatuck River Review, Kansas City Voices, Poetry Salzburg Review, English Journal, Stonecoast Review, Red Earth Review, Emrys Journal, Prairie Winds, Gyroscope Review, and others.
Everything We Try to Be
strings of raindrops
swing from grilled iron bars
crystal balls revealing
worlds after the dust
on wet mosaic floors
plastic chairs bent not broken
and inside the door hinges
nests of birds, sparrows, quiet,
impossible teeter on faith
and distant clouds rumble
we see the sand-filled pour
down the drain
into the stagnant lake
hyacinths burst open
in Borsha monsoon
predicting a future
