she was conscripted

by poetry

with every scrivening

of her pen-scratched

script.

lexemes

shackled themselves

to her

constricting the strictures

as they fought

to tighten the binds

of oft-perverted

scriptures.

idioms

became her playmates

soulfully aerating

idiotic power structures.

morphemes

morphed into her

sister circle

stepping into places

vacated by contrary

comrades of old.

elocution of locution

elected

to stand her erect

when her soul slumped

under weight

of foreshortened futures

penned pictures.

fluid diction

fluency of phraseology

swum her upstream

against the winnowing tide.

among the buffeted

displaced translucent minnows

she discovers

radiant rainbowed iridescence

sister outlaw poets

likewise

swallowing the stream

as they author

their revitalization