Summoning Thunder

Summoning Thunder

Nothing cracks like Texas thunder

ricocheting through the night.

We rouse ourselves from gossamer dreams.

Foggy in our mirrored eyes, we slip shades open

and gaze unto the velvet mist of early morning,

a marbled sky of violet wonder.

A heartbeat as familiar as our own,

we sink back to feathered silence.

Kate Koenig is a queer writer and photographer living in Houston, TX. She is a recent MFA graduate of Creative Writing from The New School. Find her on Twitter here.