Posts by Sean Glatch
Saturday Parking Lot
Gray clouds hover white headlights, red-lit tails punctuate the quiet— what will the next moment bring? Dark-winged roof crow in muscled flight orange and Halloween striped truck dove-brown gull’s soaring…
Read MoreHaiku: Sometimes Spring
Summertime ashes falling fire on the mountain Autumn leaves drift and tumble down the canyon Winter wonderland slip on unexpected ice break a leg Now the warming days plums blossom…
Read MoreSkipping Stones
You were skipping stones and I was romancing the thought of your hands and my hands and the miles of water between us, Wondering what the distance means, our bodies…
Read MoreThe Shut-In’s Lament in Springtime
Birds build their nests from sticks and gobs of gum in flaking foil, old condom wrappers, pop- tops, every dime I’ve ever dropped. The sun’s still sleeping. I am too.…
Read MoreFirst Bloom
Look again. This is not some common hustle here by the road. Gaudy does not always mean cheap, but yes, she looks a little trashy there in all that lipstick.…
Read MoreSpring Showers
The spring rains wash away the last of the mud-encrusted snow. The cocoons burst like overfilled water balloons. The leaves emerge darker, a more emerald, sea-foam green. The dew-laden air…
Read MoreSpring Haiku in Solitude
“Do introverts get lonely?” Dogs don’t answer, snore on floor by queen bed. “Make More Love” wall art laughs above my pillowed head, hung before breakup. Hugless in Phoenix cuddles…
Read MoreInterview: Barbara Henning Discusses “Prompt Book” and Finding the Inspiration to Write
If you’re a writer looking for prompts, inspiration, or lessons on literary movements, then writers.com instructor Barbara Henning‘s new book Prompt Book (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2021) is your solution. Naturally, we…
Read MoreProse vs. Poetry: Their Differences, Overlaps, and Writing Each
The difference between prose and poetry seems easy to explain: one has blocks of text and fully-fleshed characters, the other has line breaks and pretty words. That’s it, right? Despite…
Read MoreWhat is Urban Fantasy? Writing the Urban Fantasy Genre
If you’re interested in writing urban fantasy, just know this: urban fantasy books ruined my trip to New York City. There weren’t any goblins under the Brooklyn Bridge, the lions…
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