Malcolm Farley
@malcolmfarley.bsky.social
Poet & cultural journalist. https://malcolmfarleywriter.com
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.
A rare—and beautiful—Heaney poem with an American setting (Massachusetts).
#poem #walnuts #Heaney #premonition #Irish #Massachusetts
#poem #walnuts #Heaney #premonition #Irish #Massachusetts
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A rare—and beautiful—Heaney poem with an American setting (Massachusetts).
#poem #walnuts #Heaney #premonition #Irish #Massachusetts
#poem #walnuts #Heaney #premonition #Irish #Massachusetts
Lolabelle Lee, Sleep Influencer! Stay tuned for the movie, due out next year, from Marvel.
#dogs #sleep #influencer #marvels #superheroes
#dogs #sleep #influencer #marvels #superheroes
September 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Lolabelle Lee, Sleep Influencer! Stay tuned for the movie, due out next year, from Marvel.
#dogs #sleep #influencer #marvels #superheroes
#dogs #sleep #influencer #marvels #superheroes
Another iconic New Yorker cover by illustrator and cultural critic Barry Blit.
September 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Another iconic New Yorker cover by illustrator and cultural critic Barry Blit.
Oh look! Boris Badinov and Natasha Fatale join the aptly monikered Christoper Cocksworth, Dean of Windsor-Lick-and-Spittle, in the culture-laundering of embryonic fascism, full-grown viciousness, and gross malfeasance via a British Royal Family Dysfunction.
September 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Oh look! Boris Badinov and Natasha Fatale join the aptly monikered Christoper Cocksworth, Dean of Windsor-Lick-and-Spittle, in the culture-laundering of embryonic fascism, full-grown viciousness, and gross malfeasance via a British Royal Family Dysfunction.
Our little blue dolphin pool thermometer is now a cetacean out of water. Pool drained and covered. Fall cometh. Sadness.
#autumn #signsoffall #omen
#autumn #signsoffall #omen
September 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Our little blue dolphin pool thermometer is now a cetacean out of water. Pool drained and covered. Fall cometh. Sadness.
#autumn #signsoffall #omen
#autumn #signsoffall #omen
Class, democracy, false consciousness, mauvaise foi.
September 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Class, democracy, false consciousness, mauvaise foi.
"Dictionary Johnson" defines pseudo-, crypto-, fascistical-jingoism.
September 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"Dictionary Johnson" defines pseudo-, crypto-, fascistical-jingoism.