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Seaglass Picnic
Seaglass Picnic
Seaglass Picnic
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Seaglass Picnic

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Seaglass Picnic (with a splash of post traumatic stress) is Frances Driscoll's attempt to describe the lingering effects of the horrendous rape she experienced years earlier (and written about in her powerful collection, The Rape Poems). In Seaglass Picnic, she uses humor and understatement to deal with that which at times seems unbearable. This is a book for anyone who is healing from a tragedy, anyone who has suffered from post-traumatic stress in any form.

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Release dateMar 18, 2016
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    Seaglass Picnic - Frances Driscoll

    seaglass picnic

    with a splash of post traumatic Stress

    by

    Frances Driscoll

    Pleasure Boat Studio

    New York

    Gratefully acknowledgement is made to:

    Viceversa Press which printed a broadside of The Eaten Heart

    &

    Lauren Grosskopf who designed the book cover

    for

    Andy & Aileen

    for

    Janet & Donald

    for

    Elizabeth

    for

    My Ocean

    Contents

    Train/Trains. Peach Melba.

    Peaches/Men. Men/Peaches.

    Red Sticker Fragile

    to go properly into the past

    after over 26 years

    Andy Finds Me

    Things People Want To Know

    Me & Sally Don’t Think Alike

    Ocean’s Career

    What Is/What If (A Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Poem)

    Plots.

    My Ocean’s Painting

    Why we watch (A Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Poem)

    Mating Fish Hum (A Headline Poem)

    Needing Recess

    Newly Open

    Cuts & Bleeding

    Things Healthy Women Do Differently (A Headline Poem)

    Sister Talk

    Looking/Not Looking: For

    Andy’s Idea of Good Advice

    Andy hopes

    Minefields

    Baby, Baby

    The Definition of Fragile.

    He takes off his shirt.

    Go to bed

    Yes, he probably should have.

    The Cry-Outs

    Lillian Wants To Know (A Law & Order Special Victims Unit Poem)

    First, she dreams. Then, she begins to write.

    Airport Re-Enactment

    Forgetting/Remembering Why

    My first hug from Andy.

    That Object

    9 words.

    Fishing. Fishing.

    My neighbor Colleen’s sister Trish says.

    Choice. But, we don’t get to choose.

    Saying the Words

    A Taste of Honey

    My little girl warrior queen

    The One Story I Know

    New Alum Chum

    January 8.

    Leftover dreams & more inside a small yellow butterfly world.

    That conversation.

    p.s.

    Several harps stolen from Nevada city harpist home (A Headline Poem)

    um. yeah.

    Me & Elizabeth

    A Puritan Girl

    Andy Dictates A List

    Jam. Pickles. Brussel Sprouts.

    Normal/Not Normal

    Lunch with Sunflower Wishes

    Bob is not the right answer.

    No Arms. No Hands.

    Dealing with Disaster

    Inappropriate Laughter

    Zach Chats

    My Children

    My Neck/Anthony’s Eyes

    Best Friends

    Whitney’s Class Is Leaf Hunting

    The Unfinished …

    Might Be A Stretch

    Breathe, Hon. Hon, Breathe.

    Whispers

    Meeting Jacob

    Sharing Our Plans.

    How, for my Ocean, I get all the good One Ocean Hotel stuff.

    Things We Can’t Talk About.

    That Object #2

    Andy and Janet do the math.

    Context: Me & Bill

    Waking While Dead/Waking While Again Alive

    Re-open.

    The Flying White Tiger Dream

    Love & Whispers

    Ann’s Kitchen Sink Faucets

    Tell me.

    The Wound Re-Opens

    Something Else.

    Spontaneous Orgasm

    Seeds. Threads.

    A Letter to love.

    Washing News.

    Rhythm Is The Key To Good Sex (A Headline Poem)

    Such A Painful Sight

    Air. Slanting In/On.

    Maybe. Maybe.

    Something I Like To Look At

    Addiction

    Error. (A Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Poem)

    Seen/Spoken Simple Language Words Become Utter Sheer Lasting Hell.

    Ocean’s Imagination

    Fear Is Always

    Question

    27th February 11

    Trying Not To Think About Thursday. Today is Tuesday morning.

    A hotel would be involved

    The Unpredictable Vulva

    Days

    A bunny for Honey

    Real Life & Romance Novels

    My Ocean

    Finding Milk. Most Likely Whole.

    Dream. February 22.

    Dreams Picnic

    Wednesday, March 19

    Floating While Revolving and Floating While Inside The Sea

    His favorite place.

    Ignition. Without batteries.

    He was.

    Darling

    The End.

    Andy Reads Me A Poem.

    The Eaten Heart

    for Andrew Long (March 25, 1962-March 19, 2014)

    (Roma historian Sarah Carmona says in Romani

    when you want to tell someone you love him

    you might say, I eat your heart.)

    Love,

    I have eaten your heart.

    And,

    you,

    my beloved,

    have eaten mine.

    Train/Trains. Peach Melba.

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