ERICH VON HUNGEN

SUMMER ISSUE #09 FEATURED POET

Erich von Hungen is a writer from San Francisco, California. His writing has appeared in The Colorado Quarterly, The Write Launch, Versification, Green Ink Press, Sage Cigarettes, Brave Voices, The Hyacinth Review, Fahmidan Journal and others. He is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being Bleeding Through: 72 Poems Of Man In Nature. Find him on X @PoetryForce.

LISTENING

Morning. Early.
Not a breeze,
not a shadow moving,
not a bird,
not a cloud even.

Silence dances,
dances there.
And there,
silence listens.

THE NIGHT WAS HOT

The night was hot.
The lightning came.
The sky split like a
great dark jar breaking.
Then everything was silent,
even the rain stopped.