Malcolm Farley
@malcolmfarley.bsky.social
Poet & cultural journalist. https://malcolmfarleywriter.com
Three masterful and moving #sonnets by poet Nicholas Pierce. From Revel, issue 4, Fall 2025.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Three masterful and moving #sonnets by poet Nicholas Pierce. From Revel, issue 4, Fall 2025.
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@unboundedition.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I may have accidentally captured evidence of the spiritual existence of Mary, Mother of God. She seems to be de-materializing right in front of the camera. You can even see the electric cords that were tethering her to reality.
Note the base, in particular.
Ravello, at night. October 2025.
Note the base, in particular.
Ravello, at night. October 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I may have accidentally captured evidence of the spiritual existence of Mary, Mother of God. She seems to be de-materializing right in front of the camera. You can even see the electric cords that were tethering her to reality.
Note the base, in particular.
Ravello, at night. October 2025.
Note the base, in particular.
Ravello, at night. October 2025.
Anticipating Spiegelman's bio of #AmyClampitt, I pulled out my copy of her @aaknopf.bsky.social's Complete Poems & opened it to this gem,"Tidewater Winter." I love how she manages her syntax here so that it teeters on the edge of the theoretically ungrammatical but never quite tips over into muddle.
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Anticipating Spiegelman's bio of #AmyClampitt, I pulled out my copy of her @aaknopf.bsky.social's Complete Poems & opened it to this gem,"Tidewater Winter." I love how she manages her syntax here so that it teeters on the edge of the theoretically ungrammatical but never quite tips over into muddle.
This is one of the goofier custom license-plates I've ever seen.
I always thought these were a bad idea because it's much easier to remember actual words or names-& identify a miscreant driver—than if you use half-random letters & numbers to label your car.
Moo! Moo!
#animalphotography
I always thought these were a bad idea because it's much easier to remember actual words or names-& identify a miscreant driver—than if you use half-random letters & numbers to label your car.
Moo! Moo!
#animalphotography
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is one of the goofier custom license-plates I've ever seen.
I always thought these were a bad idea because it's much easier to remember actual words or names-& identify a miscreant driver—than if you use half-random letters & numbers to label your car.
Moo! Moo!
#animalphotography
I always thought these were a bad idea because it's much easier to remember actual words or names-& identify a miscreant driver—than if you use half-random letters & numbers to label your car.
Moo! Moo!
#animalphotography
"The Stars" by Vasiliki Albedo
– from Banshee's Issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024).
A gorgeous poem.
#Greece #Sahara #etymology #bucklingunder #heartburn
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– from Banshee's Issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024).
A gorgeous poem.
#Greece #Sahara #etymology #bucklingunder #heartburn
@bdralyuk.bsky.social @placepoet.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"The Stars" by Vasiliki Albedo
– from Banshee's Issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024).
A gorgeous poem.
#Greece #Sahara #etymology #bucklingunder #heartburn
@bdralyuk.bsky.social @placepoet.bsky.social
– from Banshee's Issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024).
A gorgeous poem.
#Greece #Sahara #etymology #bucklingunder #heartburn
@bdralyuk.bsky.social @placepoet.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Would you like to see a moral snapshot of Amerikkka, under heartless #ZombieDon, our demented Sociopath-in-Chief?
Look below. No cartoons necessary.
Look below. No cartoons necessary.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Would you like to see a moral snapshot of Amerikkka, under heartless #ZombieDon, our demented Sociopath-in-Chief?
Look below. No cartoons necessary.
Look below. No cartoons necessary.
My poem, "Yesterday's Men," appears in issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) of Banshee. Inspired by a little health scare earlier this year & a purely domestic accident.
#sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social
#sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My poem, "Yesterday's Men," appears in issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) of Banshee. Inspired by a little health scare earlier this year & a purely domestic accident.
#sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social
#sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social
Vista stradale di Napoli. So kewl there's a condom dispensing machine easily available in the public roadway. Near a church, by the way.
So sad it's not working.
Seems emblematic of so much in public life, here & abroad. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
#naples #napoli #condoms
So sad it's not working.
Seems emblematic of so much in public life, here & abroad. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
#naples #napoli #condoms
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What is it about the depiction of bodies in marble that so arouses one? A promise of immortality? And dance, music, centaurs, satyrs, wine, and desire?
(Detail from a Roman sarcophagus, Museo Archeologico di Napoli.)
#representation #marble #erotics #
(Detail from a Roman sarcophagus, Museo Archeologico di Napoli.)
#representation #marble #erotics #
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What is it about the depiction of bodies in marble that so arouses one? A promise of immortality? And dance, music, centaurs, satyrs, wine, and desire?
(Detail from a Roman sarcophagus, Museo Archeologico di Napoli.)
#representation #marble #erotics #
(Detail from a Roman sarcophagus, Museo Archeologico di Napoli.)
#representation #marble #erotics #
The anomalous, extended dramatic scene in this sonnet (the first 12 lines are just 1 nearly breathless sentence) enacts—at the level of syntax and stanzaic structure—the tragi-comic uncatchability of the mother/Dark Lady.
#craft #sonnets #shakespeare #laronde #futile
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
#craft #sonnets #shakespeare #laronde #futile
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The anomalous, extended dramatic scene in this sonnet (the first 12 lines are just 1 nearly breathless sentence) enacts—at the level of syntax and stanzaic structure—the tragi-comic uncatchability of the mother/Dark Lady.
#craft #sonnets #shakespeare #laronde #futile
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
#craft #sonnets #shakespeare #laronde #futile
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
Happy Hungerween from Donracula von Trumpf, our Dearest Vampyre Leader!
@marycurtis.bsky.social @maryltrump.bsky.social
#halloween #hunger #terror #scary #creepy
@marycurtis.bsky.social @maryltrump.bsky.social
#halloween #hunger #terror #scary #creepy
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Happy Hungerween from Donracula von Trumpf, our Dearest Vampyre Leader!
@marycurtis.bsky.social @maryltrump.bsky.social
#halloween #hunger #terror #scary #creepy
@marycurtis.bsky.social @maryltrump.bsky.social
#halloween #hunger #terror #scary #creepy
At the oldest house in our village, from 1767, a primal Halloween evil walks toward me, clutching an unholy child.
I can SO relate to the monster mother & the hapless, faceless puppy-critter.
LOL.
Terrifying.
#Halloween #Scary #Primal #Scene #Freakish
I can SO relate to the monster mother & the hapless, faceless puppy-critter.
LOL.
Terrifying.
#Halloween #Scary #Primal #Scene #Freakish
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
At the oldest house in our village, from 1767, a primal Halloween evil walks toward me, clutching an unholy child.
I can SO relate to the monster mother & the hapless, faceless puppy-critter.
LOL.
Terrifying.
#Halloween #Scary #Primal #Scene #Freakish
I can SO relate to the monster mother & the hapless, faceless puppy-critter.
LOL.
Terrifying.
#Halloween #Scary #Primal #Scene #Freakish
Surviving metopes from an ancient Greek temple dedicated to the cult of Hera at the amazing, ancient city of Paestum, south of Salerno, Italy.
#women #goddesses #statues #Greek
#women #goddesses #statues #Greek
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Surviving metopes from an ancient Greek temple dedicated to the cult of Hera at the amazing, ancient city of Paestum, south of Salerno, Italy.
#women #goddesses #statues #Greek
#women #goddesses #statues #Greek
When the torch you hold in your hand casts a dark, petulant shadow on your face.
#cherubs #torch #torchsong #egyptian #contraposto
#cherubs #torch #torchsong #egyptian #contraposto
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When the torch you hold in your hand casts a dark, petulant shadow on your face.
#cherubs #torch #torchsong #egyptian #contraposto
#cherubs #torch #torchsong #egyptian #contraposto
La donna-gato degli ATM. Ravello, Italia.
Animale sacro-fiscale.
@georgetakei.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social @jessicacuello.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @katieroiphe.bsky.social
#cats #gods #patron #saints #money #strangegods
Animale sacro-fiscale.
@georgetakei.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social @jessicacuello.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @katieroiphe.bsky.social
#cats #gods #patron #saints #money #strangegods
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
La donna-gato degli ATM. Ravello, Italia.
Animale sacro-fiscale.
@georgetakei.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social @jessicacuello.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @katieroiphe.bsky.social
#cats #gods #patron #saints #money #strangegods
Animale sacro-fiscale.
@georgetakei.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social @jessicacuello.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @katieroiphe.bsky.social
#cats #gods #patron #saints #money #strangegods
Here's an example of the 8th type of ambiguity (not covered in William Empson's famous monograph): creepy, radically uninterpretable.
From a neighbor's garden. (That's a lovely "weeping" redbud next to gas-masked Santa.)
What should we take from this juxtaposition?
@christopherpatton.bsky.social
From a neighbor's garden. (That's a lovely "weeping" redbud next to gas-masked Santa.)
What should we take from this juxtaposition?
@christopherpatton.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Here's an example of the 8th type of ambiguity (not covered in William Empson's famous monograph): creepy, radically uninterpretable.
From a neighbor's garden. (That's a lovely "weeping" redbud next to gas-masked Santa.)
What should we take from this juxtaposition?
@christopherpatton.bsky.social
From a neighbor's garden. (That's a lovely "weeping" redbud next to gas-masked Santa.)
What should we take from this juxtaposition?
@christopherpatton.bsky.social
My poet-friend and gifted colleague, Casey Elizabeth Newbegin, makes a striking debut with "The Eucalypts," out now from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social
Buy it hot off the press!
Buy it hot off the press!
October 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My poet-friend and gifted colleague, Casey Elizabeth Newbegin, makes a striking debut with "The Eucalypts," out now from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social
Buy it hot off the press!
Buy it hot off the press!
Miracle! We managed to catch our night-blooming cereus in flagrante delicto. If we had scent-er-rama on Bluesky, you'd be in heaven right now. The perfume is an opioid. This complex flower also looks very sci-fi, like an alien from outer space. I think it attracts moths, bats, nocturnal beetles.
October 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Miracle! We managed to catch our night-blooming cereus in flagrante delicto. If we had scent-er-rama on Bluesky, you'd be in heaven right now. The perfume is an opioid. This complex flower also looks very sci-fi, like an alien from outer space. I think it attracts moths, bats, nocturnal beetles.