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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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.