A Poem by Harmony Hodges

Hallelujah

Inside egg walls

heartbeat.

Orchestral chorus

an amniotic vessel.

Vibrating crescendos

singing without breath
pecking without beak.

Audience tearing

mama hen waiting
mice return to holes.

Fleas jump off coop

thunderous pecking.
circumspection.

A drainage of fluid

a race through the stanza
chips of eggshell
the ceiling shatters.

Mama stands up,

audience gasps
baby has broken
soloist has spoken.

The end

of the beginning
of a beginning.

Harmony Hodges is an artist living in Portland Oregon. She writes poetry and fiction and her work can be found in the online journal With Painted Words.