On Assembly

Written By Rowan Tate

The metal keeps time.
Her hands do not.

Each piece slides
into its next life.

Machine blood:
oil and voltage.

The patterned pulse
of something turning.

The print of her fingers,
grease shaped like a bird.

Outside, trees bloom
without witness.

Rowan Tate

Rowan Tate is a Romanian creative and curator of beauty. Her writing appears in the Stinging Fly, the Shore, Josephine Quarterly, and Meniscus Literary Journal, among others. She reads nonfiction nature books, the backs of shampoo bottles, and sometimes minds. 

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