2:37 AM

Quiet peace
          -- disrupted
sirens squealing from the weather radio
dogs barking
babies crying
all for a single thunderclap
jerking out of bed by a firm grip on the eyelashes

Climbing back atop the mattress as
soothing rain takes overinfant calms to sleep
canines shooed, submitting
forty-seven button pushes later on the radio
Restoration --
         of silence