Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 14hThem! (1954) #ants #exterminators #extermination #signsofthetimes 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just arrived today in the post. Mary Jo Salter's latest book, "Cameo Appearance." "Vaccine" offers a particularly topical (pun intended) sting. Brilliant cover photograph offers a visual analog for the poems within. @aaknopf.bsky.social 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026On today's moody mood board. #ghoul #creepy #kitsch #Halloween #merch #unholychild 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Contact sheet by Peter Hujar. From the exhibit—"Hujar: Contact"—at the The Morgan Library in NYC through October 25, 2026. #hujar #photography #leather #gay #trailblazer 060
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is a "life mask" of George Washington’s face, made by Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1785 at Mount Vernon. On exhibit at the Morgan Library in #NYC. He may have used it while sculpting a marble statue of Washington for the Virginia State Capitol. #Presidents #Founders #mask #sculpture #Houdon 041
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If the #Democrats don't start shouting—"And what about Don Jr.'s Junkanoo headdress?"— they'll be missing a (literally) golden opportunity to bedevil & discredit the Trumps. #icky #PutinKremlin #whereallroadslead @democrats.org @occupydemocrats.bsky.social @propublica.org bit.ly/4doUIJS 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For the 25th Anniversary of 9/11. What I remember. #September11 #twintowers #fallen @bdralyuk.bsky.social @stellahayes.bsky.social 010
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Sweet autumn clematis is an invasive vine. It grows aggressively each summer & seeds itself everywhere. But if you prune it carefully & cull the many seedlings each spring, it rewards you with #September blossoming & an intoxicating, airborne opium. Honey bees, in particular, love it. #goodandbad 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#AI #humanish #humanoid #creepy #creeping #icky #GreatReplacementReality 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The key, the lock, the shadow, the walnut armoire. #details #abstractions #keys #locks 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The caterpillar of a monarch on one of the marsh milkweeds in our garden this August. If she survives, pupates, hatches, and makes it to Mexico, she may overwinter there, fly north to the Gulf Coast next spring, mate, lay eggs & launch the next generation of monarchs in 2027. #butterfly #miracle 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Irish novelist Edna O'Brien in her London home, 1971. Photograph by Irish photographer John Minihan. #genius #writers #Irish #trailblazer #portrait 020
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"...Admit impediment..." With apologies to Bill Shakesp. #rock vs. #hardplace #stones #boulders #blocks #obstacles #hunkeringdown #refusingtomove 010
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Second of two poems in Issue 71 of The Tampa Review. (From my m.s., "Wissahickon," now knocking on the doors of some publishers.) Many thanks to TR poetry editors: Paul Corrigan & Jodi Johnson. @bdralyuk.bsky.social @deanbrowne.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social @macdowell1907.bsky.social 020
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026First of two poems in Issue 71 of The Tampa Review. (From my m.s., "Wissahickon," now knocking on the doors of some publishers.) Many thanks to TR poetry editors: Paul Corrigan & Jodi Johnson. #poems #parents #grief #unsaying 121
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A gorgeous purple bromeliad from the tropical botanical garden in Naples, #Florida. Photo taken this past March. #tropicals #bromeliads #gardens #flowers 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I'm sorry Martha Stewart, but "Busy-Day Dump Cake" is NOT a good moniker for this otherwise delicious-looking confection. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..." #MissNamed #MissStake #MissInformation #MissNomer 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A purple-blossomed, silver vase plant aka Aechmea fasciata, which also comes in green-leafed varieties, as well as ones with cream, pink, and red flowers. A bromeliad. Taken this past March at the Naples Botanical Garden in Naples, Florida. #Florida #tropicals #Naples #gardens 020
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Exotic summer-flowering bulb opens its shocking pink (Gay Pride, anyone?) flower today in our garden. At least here, our local village chapter of the American Legion can't object to our "flag." #GayPride 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026After 45 years... #quartets #retirement #lastseason #goodbye #farewell #endings 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026On this day— #Juneteenth —that commemorates the end of chattel slavery in America, I'm remembering the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. No reparations and no justice were ever provided for the hundreds of survivors. #tulsaoklahoma #TulsaMassacre #Shame #Crime 010
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026 Happy that two of my poems appear in Issue 71 of "The Tampa Review." Looking forward to receiving a printed copy soon. #poems #poetry #childhood #parents #goodmagic #badmagic @utampapress.bsky.social 010
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Wonderful Portuguese cows, near the site the Cromeleque na Herdade dos Almendres, one of the oldest megalithic sites in Europe circa 6,000 B.C., in the Early Neolithic. (Photo taken on January 2, 2025.) #cows #magic #megaliths #Portugal #cromlech #travel 020
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 17/05/2026From Amy Clampitt's "What The Light Was Like." #cats #interiors #catpoems #gardens 010
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The Waterfall," by Amy Clampitt... from her book, "Archaic Figure," 1987. But it could have been written yesterday or a minute ago or will be... next year. #amyclampitt #poetry #enduring #ephemeral 010
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Afternoon narcissus. #daffodils #April #spring #lightslant #beauty #flowerporn 010
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 16/04/2026And so it was written. #sentences #Zeno #architecture #poems #prose 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Questions for American VP J.D. Vance. #morality #PopeLeo #Pope #justwar #war #Iran #stayinyourlane #unitedstates #america #vatican #theology 010
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Even in the late afternoon and past its prime, the star magnolia is still gorgeous. "Death is the mother of beauty." — Wallace Stevens #flowers #stars #magnolia #beauty #belatedness #endings 030
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026English poet, Edward Thomas. 1916 Friend of Robert Frost. #smallthings #weeds #nettles #farmlife #bigthemesinlittlespaces 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Just collateral damage, bub? #LIES #HYPOCRISY #GUILTY #IRAN #SCHOOLS #GIRLS #MIGRANTCHILDREN 100
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026#War as #distraction from #domestic woes. Zero case made for Iran attack. No public debate or discussion. No congressional authorization. Sham and shame. #Trumpstein @mark.fornes @npr @wnyc @maddowmaddow @onthemedia @lawrence_odonnell @micah_loewinger @ezraklein @chrislhayes 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Adapted from a dictum of Teresa de Lauretis, coiner (and critic) of "queer theory," as found in her NYTimes obit: www.nytimes.com/.../teresa-d... #poems #poets #poetry #queerness #difference #topography #mentalgeography #beyondcategory 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026The Blob That Ate Trader Joe's. February 18. #berg #pile #creature #mountain #monster @traderjoesss.bsky.social @traderjoesunited.bsky.social 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Read—and hear—my latest poem under the sun. In Issue 44 of "Radar Poetry." www.radarpoetry.com/world-class-... Many thanks to Rachel Marie Patterson & Dara-Lyn Shrager #poetry #villagemuse #locality #placepoem #summer 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 12/02/2026On my moody mood board tonight. (from the Cathedral of St. Andrew, Amalfi, Italia. October 2025.) #grumpysaintly #seentoomuch #hopedtoolong 000
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 11/02/2026The miraculous floating Christ in the Cathedral of Saint Andrew. Amalfi, Italia. October 2025. #jesuschrist #crucifix #miracle #amalfi #saintandrew #basilica 020
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026From @deanbrowne.bsky.social's wonderful debut, "After Party." @picadorbooks.bsky.social #Irish #Irishpoetry #donegal #gametheory #wizarding 031
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Dachshund sweater. Isle of Capri. Fall 2025. #dogs #dachsund #sweaters #dogfashion #fashionisto 020
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 01/02/2026"Hands of Marionette Player," 1929 Italian-American-Mexican photographer, Tina Modotti. #modotti #hands #photographer #photography #marionettes #puppets #work #artistry 020
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Love, love, love your photograph! But that's definitely not an American robin (Turdus migratorious). I think it might be a female bluebird (Sialia sialis). (The females aren't as brightly colored as the males.). Here's a picture of an American robin: 320
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 26/01/2026A street portrait by the amazing Vivian Maier, an astoundingly gifted photographer unknown until after her death in 2009. This photograph was taken in Chicago on May 16, 1957. In a bus or train waiting room perhaps? #streetscape #photography #character #empathy #personality #textures #composition 130
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Leather goods and footwear accessories. Street scene in Naples. October 2026 #Italy #Napoli #streetscape #hair #men 031
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Right now, it seems a good moment to recall the famous last stanza of Sir Richard Lovelace's poem, "To Althea: From Prison." Lovelace may have been a royalist, but his poem speaks to the a spirit of defiance in all those who oppose tyranny and injustice, whether crowned or empty-headed. 100
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 21/01/2026So glad to see one of my favorite poets, Karen Solie, the ambitious and gifted Canadian poet, has just won a big award: www.theguardian.com/.../karen-so.... Not enough of my American poet friends have read her work. #poets #Canada @bdralyuk.bsky.social 241
Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Late night at the Eagle. Bondage, sweet bondage. Oh San Pantaleaõ, my pantless saint! Martyrdom has never seemed so calm, so sweet. Even Modesty's rumpled napkin is decorous, symmetrical, replete. #martyrdom #sweet #bondage 010
