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Metal Meticulous
by Sonora Taylor

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.

Fiction © Copyright Sonora Taylor
Image courtesy of  Pixabay.com

More from Sonora Taylor:

Without Condition

Cara Vineyard lives a quiet life in rural North Carolina. She works for an emerging brewery, drives her truck late at night, and lives with her mother on a former pumpkin farm. Her mother is proud of her and keeps a wall displaying all of Cara’s accomplishments.

Cara isn’t so much proud as she is bored. She’s revitalized when she meets Jackson Price, a pharmacist in Raleigh. Every day they spend together, she falls for him a little more — which in turn makes her life more complicated. When Cara goes on her late-night drives, she often picks up men. Those men tend to die. And when Cara comes back to the farm, she brings a memento for her mother to add to her wall of accomplishments.

Cara’s mother loves her no matter what. But she doesn’t know if Jackson will feel the same — and she doesn’t want to find out.

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