We love welcoming new Snake-Oilers into the family, and this week, we had a great first fiction submission from Dawn Wilson, and some photos from Rodrigo Illarraga. And let’s not forget returning Snake-Oiler David Subacchi.
Monday – Fiction
Wednesday – Photography
Friday – Poetry
So that’s what you missed, Sunday friends! More to come next week.
Posted by DLR on January 20, 2013
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/dr-hurleys-digest-vol-ii-issue-45/
On the wall of this hotel
There’s a framed photograph
Of a balcony in Naples
Overlooking the bay
And on a table in the foreground
Is a sign in three languages
That reads “Please don’t lean over”
Slightly unnerving perhaps
Suggesting a great drop
Hidden behind the flower bowl
Adorning this charming scene
It’s a black and white picture
For effect not because it’s old
With a message that is casual
Mysterious and cold
“Rest here in peace
And you will come to no harm
But don’t lean over too far
Or you will find death
Waiting open armed
On the rocks below you”.
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David Subacchi is a well known poet and performer of his work in Wales and the North West of England. He has been published in both Welsh and English and hopes one day to write in Italian too. His English Language Collection ‘First Cut’ was published by Cestrian Press in 2012. His contributions to Snake-Oil Cure can be found here.
Posted by Dr. Hurley on January 18, 2013
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/see-naples-and-die/
We had some great new contributors, as well as some fiction from editor DLR this week, which you can catch up on in today’s digest. What better way to spend a rainy Sunday? (Don’t answer that.)
Monday – Fiction
The Man in the Homburg Hat by Daniel F. Le Ray
Wednesday – Photography
Exposure № 097: Mary, Mother of Joseph by Nils Blondon
Friday – Poetry
Shelter by David Subacchi
We have some of our favourite Snake-Oilers back next week, including fiction from Jude Lovell and more photos from Naama Sarid-Maleta’. Keep coming back, friends!
Posted by DLR on October 14, 2012
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/dr-hurleys-digest-vol-ii-issue-32/
In an awkward summer
Hardy trees with their roots
Sunk deep beneath the soil
Of our border landscape
Providing strong shelter
For bewildered creatures
Refuge from dark clouds
That have emptied for days
Rivers overflowing
Dams straining to hold back
Their threatening waters
Still the trees confident
Sturdy and defiant
Each branch lashed by rainfall
Held up protectively
To form a roof of green.
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This post is part of a series on trees. Submit your tree features to snakeoilcure[at]gmail[dot]com.
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David Subacchi is a poet and musician living in North Wales near the English border. He writes in both English and Welsh. His latest collection ‘First Cut’ was published by Cestrian Press in April. He is a member of Chester Poets and Liverpool’s ‘Dead Good Poets’. His submissions to Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure can be found here.
Posted by Dr. Hurley on October 12, 2012
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/shelter/
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