Women in Horror Month: Metal Meticulous by Sonora Taylor
Metal Meticulous
Metal meticulous,
Wire to frame.
He held her aloft
And he made her his way.
“I won’t have you staring,”
He said with a sigh
As he wrested a wrench
From a belt on his thigh.
“I won’t have you glaring,
Or speaking too harsh.
I’ll set up your wires
To blight out the dark.”
He crafted and tinkered,
Creation so fair,
But when he was finished
She stood with a glare.
“So much of your craft is
Attempts at control,
But you forgot something:
To give me a soul.
“But never you mind,
I know just where to look.”
And her fingernails pierced him
As all his bones shook.
The wires he’d crafted
To guide all her moves
Helped her to drain him
And fill all her grooves.
His blood swam to her
Through his sweat and his tears.
She held and she drained him
Of all of his years.
Metal meticulous
Blood upon bone
She held him aloft
And she turned him to stone.
Sonora Taylor is the award-winning author of several books and short stories. Her books include Seeing Things, Little Paranoias: Stories, Without Condition, The Crow’s Gift and Other Tales, Please Give, and Wither and Other Stories.
Her short stories have been published by Camden Park Press, Burial Day Press, Cemetery Gates Media, Tales to Terrify, Sirens Call Publications, Ghost Orchid Press, and others. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, and serves on the board of directors of Scares That Care.
Her latest short story collection, Someone to Share My Nightmares, is now available. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and a rescue dog.
