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Morgan L Ventura (Dr Hilary M V Leathem)
@morganvl.bsky.social
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Writer, archaeologist | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Curating a digital repatriation @UniExeter | MA QUB, PhD UChicago | They/She 🏳️‍🌈 Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI SIAP 2025
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morganvl.bsky.social
Oooo yes
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
morganvl.bsky.social
I am, against my will 😂🫠 I’m reading poems to a hostage audience - you are welcome to join
Secretly(not so secretly) I hope this conference features a séance with dead anthros who chide us for our ontological failings
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Blurry copy, but here:
DOUBLE SONNET FOR SO4E13 BY ERIN VACHON You shipped them: Mulder and Scully. Some spooky guy hot for aliens, hair flopping tantrums at a bald FBI father figure. Too punk rock for paperwork, he rendezvoused in soft- lit parking garages with strangers. She filed the official reports on slick gray creatures, straight-faced in her blazer. Snapped latex glove above autopsy table. Scalpelled herself out of hostage situations. If she got shot, so what? Shoulder-padded, she played sharp shooter to his damsel. You shipped his special agency to summon her: how she would come to his rescue, skeptical of space invaders. The heavens opened to such close encounters. We all yearn for an unidentified object. Do you investigate forever? She probed volcanic caves, and parasitic worms in Alaskan stations, then, rolled with news of a hypermobile mutant hiding in her apartment ducts. Like: what? It's Tuesday. No sweat for an agent. Taupe lipstick: perfect. Red bob: unfazed. But why wait four seasons for the big question on a relationship? Hey, Mulder. Why don't I have my own desk in the basement? You want to believe the truth is out there, flying transcendent. Here's the real conspiracy: she never once sat down in four years, and you called that a partnership.
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
morganvl.bsky.social
a close up of a black and white dog with a collar on
Alt: a close up of a black and white dog with a collar on
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November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
morganvl.bsky.social
This needs to happen! So many ppl would be down, esp with the Ryan Coogler reboot possibly on the horizon
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
morganvl.bsky.social
This is sooo good, I love “do we investigate forever?” It’s so vivid & punchy with perfect turns
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
morganvl.bsky.social
Yessss, I hope you’ll like it! There needs to be a X-Files poetry anthology (Is there an X-Files poetry anthology?!)
Also, I must read all your x-files related poems now 🛸
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
morganvl.bsky.social
💊 🧙‍♀️ E-P would’ve loved this post
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
morganvl.bsky.social
I second linocut! Or gardening, v therapeutic
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM