In Madison Dakin's debut book, Drowning in my own Potential, readers follow themes of introspection, love, heartbreak, and loss. The collection of poems and thoughts encompass the protagonist's navigation through a fluctuation of different feelings. "i wish to tip over the hourglass of life, / and have a moment to myself. / shed my inhibitions, / in the way a snake abandons skin it has outgrown. / i wish to emerge from my once comforting cocoon,...