Firebrand Poem by Joan Woodbridge

She stood alone
isolated
in jaw-set
non-compliance
cornered
in her own
righteous angle of perception

lawmaker
lawbreaker
unmoved
even by the angelic trumpets

ex-cepting her own easy slippage
from which she abdicates
unsuccessfully
all responsibility
holding separate that which she said
she could not control

ex-cepting her own easy slippage
while remonstrating
the easy slippage of others
unashamed
rigorously righteously remorseless

but that was all before
the inglorious onset of critical thinking