I wake pale and encircled
encircled by a purpling
A purple encircling
encircling my orbits
I orbit strangely
strangely orbited
My gravity uncertain
...
Molly Akin lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where she leads a historic library. She has read in venues including the Emily Dickinson Museum, Massachusetts Poetry Festival and Lit Youngstown. Her chapbook, Hospice, won the 2024 Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices in Poetry prize. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Brevity, HAD, The Denver Quarterly, Identity Theory, Inflectionist Review, Moon City Review and Paraselene.
www.mollyakin.com / @mollyakin.bsky.social