Resolution 02172026

After June Jordan

I will plant a garden

I will nurture the garden

By nurturing the garden, I will nurture myself

By nurturing the garden, I will become the garden

By becoming the garden, I recognize I will die

By dying, I will leave much fruit for

the children of the world to pick, to gather, to invigorate, to endure

and seeds for them to sustain the world to come.


M. Campbell

M (Maia) Campbell is a Jamaican-American poet based in New England. She has been a Brooklyn Poets fellow, and, in 2025, she won second place in the Frank O'Hara Prize Contest with the poem "When I grow up." You can find published poems in Amistad: Howard University’s Literary Arts Journal, The Ana, Three Decker, and forthcoming in The Worcester Review.

https://poeticallyexpressedthoughts.wordpress.com/
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