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silver, by the woods (they/them) 🍀✨
@silverhawthorne.bsky.social
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writer, poet, editor (Liminality)
burlesque producer & host (Viscous & Tingle)
🌈🦓, 🧶, freelance alchemist, ornamental hermit.
habitat restoration as tikkun olam.
AEW/ROH/NJPW/CMLL.
4’11”.
Pagliacci.
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My lap while I watch Blood & Guts
A white Siamese, a black Ragdoll cat with a giant head, and a blonde Chihuahua snuggled up next to each other on a green-blanketed lap, as seen from above
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Song for Autumn, by Mary Oliver.
Song for Autumn by Mary Oliver Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now how comfortable it will be to touch the earth instead of the nothingness of the air and the endless freshets of wind? And don’t you think the trees, especially those with mossy hollows, are beginning to look for the birds that will come—six, a dozen—to sleep inside their bodies? And don’t you hear the goldenrod whispering goodbye, the everlasting being crowned with the first tuffets of snow? The pond stiffens and the white field over which the fox runs so quickly brings out its long blue shadows. The wind wags its many tails. And in the evening the piled firewood shifts a little, longing to be on its way.
October 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"We Have Enough Friends" Lena Oleanderson Come over. The doors are open, my flat's a mess and so is my heart but the doors are always open. Come over. I will make soup, probably from frozen but the important thing is we will both eat. You don't have to be dying, but if you are, or feel like you are, or if living's been hard, call me, and I will show up. It doesn't have to be that bad, it doesn't have to be bad at all, but if it is, please call. Do you want me to do the groceries? Do you want me to mop the floors? Do you need to be held; you don't have to be dying to be held. If you want me to be there, I want to. I'm on the bathroom floor again, and breathing is hard, and eating's been hard, and sleeping, the world is a laden thing rolling around on my chest lately. Just being alive is heavy tonight, but we have enough dead friends. Come over.
August 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I found my picture of Rocky!
Rocky, a grizzled grayish pug, posted up on a barstool at a dive bar.
August 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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rolling VIP at the dive bar burlesque show (the producer knows I can’t stand for an entire show, bless)
A sign taped to a cheap dive bar chair saying RESERVED: Silver; the background consists of a very chaotic DJ setup
August 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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is there something starla jean is getting from eating her siblings’ cat food instead of her dog food or does she just enjoy criming
A criminal, perhaps A cream-coated Chihuahua (Starla Jean the Pageant Queen) curled up on a tasseled ochre pillow; she is so tiny on it. Beside her, on a much-abused Smoko Mochi Plush Tayto pillow, is Ronathan Taylor Thomas, a flame-point Siamese (white with creamy tan toast points), looking like a dollop of sour cream on the potato pillow. They’re framed by a diagonal rust-colored tasseled pillow, on the backdrop of a green velvet nailhead couch. That’s the fairy-tale bookshelf in the background. Starla has a book club.
July 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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They’re doing it to live artists too. A new Saint Slumber album was recommended to me by the algorithm; I hit play, thought “hmm, that doesn’t sound like them”, and looked over to see this:
iPhone screenshot of Spotify: “THIS MUSIC IS NOT BY SAINT SLUMBER. IT IS AI-GENERATED SLOP UPLOADED ILLEGALLY IT IS MADE TO STEAL OUR MONEY BY TRICKING YOU INTO STREAMING IT. DO NOT LISTEN. STREAM ‘PEACHY’. LOVE YOU XX” As the background added by the band.
July 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Spouse bought a cucumber and uh
A cucumber stretched against the entire length of a person’s forearm; the cucumber is longer than and, in places, as thick as the arm. (Background: hardwood floor, cat fountain, giant cat)
July 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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how is he so #aesthetic all the time
Ron, a flame-point Siamese cat, is sleepily stretched out over two feet of a 36” bookcase; the sunbeam he’s basking in through the sunroom window is filtered by monstera deliciosa leaves. Bliss for a handsome senior fellow.
June 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Our very first harvest ✨🌱💜
A white person’s hand with a silver splint on the thumb, holding a bunch of freshly-picked radishes in white and dark red over a raised bed.
June 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Better pics later but: my very first peony!
June 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Sleepy morning for the creamsicles. #CatSky #DogSky
A beautiful cream-colored chihuahua and a beautiful flame-point Siamese curl up on pillows in shades of mustard, fawn, and copper on a green velvet nailhead couch. They’re both dozing.
June 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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May I offer you a dew-glittered wormwood in these troubled times? It’s incredibly soft. 🌱
The silvergreen soft ruffles of wormwood adorned with little globes of dew
May 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Baby’s first bloom! 🌱
A closeup of ninebark flowers among buds- white cuplike blossoms with gold centers and little black-tipped spires, with a background of deep burgundy foliage
May 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Also enjoying our roses: this flower crab spider, which is actually camouflaged to the insects it’s hunting! 🌱
A very cool white spider with beige markings nestled between hot pink rose petals
May 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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One day apart.

Anyway we’re making rose simple syrup today and rose sugar tomorrow. Any other ideas? 🌱 #GardenSky
A large rosebush with two roses and dozens of rosebuds A large rosebush with a dozen roses and, still, dozens of rosebuds
May 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Happy #caturday from the Grand Duke Alphonse.
A very large, very beautiful tuxedo Ragdoll cat lying on a shaggy rug in shades of rust, navy, and cream, seen through an open door. He has charming little tufts behind his ears, and his front paws are, as always, crossed.
May 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Three more days to go. Hopefully Starla will be more chill. But yeah, I am just barely physically capable of doing everything that needs to be done, on a good day.

I did photograph the penstemon foliage for you!
Two penstemons, their foliage green at the base and deep burgundy at the top
May 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Today in the garden 2/2
Absolutely neon lemony lace elderberry foliage Two brunnera with clouds of tiny blue (and some pink and purple) flowers, crowding out the raspberry splash lungwort between them (it’s on the to be moved list) Turkey at the base of a bird feeder on an otherwise boring grass lawn (we’re working on it), in front of the trunk of a beautiful red maple Tiny red beetle on bright green dogwood leaves
May 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Today in the garden 1/
A riot of ninebark leaves, varying from gold to crimson to maroon A lone columbine, one pink flower blooming and several buds nodding off the stem; the foliage of echinacea, great blue lobelia, and goldenrod can be seen in the background Deep purple smoketree leaves with the beginnings of its smoke Deepest purple tulip
May 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The journey from being terrified of being perceived to being Mother’s Special Snuggle Boy. #Caturday #CatSky
Ron, a flamepoint Siamese, curled up onto my left thigh, with my hand resting on him. He’s stretched out on his daikon radish pillow in full relaxed comfort.
May 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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impact
A small column of ash from an incense stick exploded starlike on a wooden desk
May 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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…wut
Screenshot of a Gmail inbox “Your Weekly Almanac No-Mow May, inseminated by a bullet…”
May 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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The densest part of the violet takeover. Most of the rest is making its way through grass, looking like brocade.
A whole lot of violets taking over part of a yard - swirled and cupped deep green leaves and little purple blossoms.
May 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Time for STARLA BOOK CLUB. What are you reading?
Starla Jean, a beautiful cream-coated chihuahua, seen from behind lounging on a green-blanket-covered lap. Beside her is the new Sara Gran book, _Little Mysteries: Nine Miniature Puzzles to Confuse, Enthrall, and Delight_.
May 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM