Sadee Bee

Solace

Sadee Bee (They/Them) is a queer artist and writer inspired by magic, strange dreams, and creepy vibes. Sadee is the Visual Arts Editor for Sage Cigarettes Magazine and the author of Pupa: Growth & Metamorphosis (Alien Buddha Press), Magic Lives In Girls (kith books), and Viscera (Bottlecap Press). Bee can be found on Twitter @SadeeBee, on Instagram @sadee__bee, and the web at linktr.ee/SadeeBee.

Easy read of the poem and art in the images above:

Pleiades

I long to join the Seven Sisters. Those celestial Nymphs dance across the sky in their father’s arms. They are immortalized in mourning, in glimmering brightness that my eyes feast upon at night. But calling upon Zeus for such a fickle wish is a recipe for disaster, for no man grants something for nothing.

He spoke of it as their protection, their catasterismi a gift when they died bargaining for peace. It was as though being trapped in sorrow would be better than joining the Earth or being placed among the heavens with the Goddess to whom they swore their companionship. Perhaps a burial in the sea with their sisters where the rain could always touch them would have been a better solace.

My desire to join them is rooted in a deep understanding of being too distant from your grief to feel it. The Seven Sisters may not need an eighth, but I yearn for the solicitude they possess. Up there with the Pleiades, I would feel nothing but recognition, held in the arms of something that knows true burden. Forever shielded from the harsh realities of the world I live in.

Solace

A feminine figure with red ivy growing from her head sits in the foreground of a darkened forest. She is facing towards large evergreen treetops in blueish-green hues, as it is night. The moon shines bright in the distance, illuminating the tops of the trees and her red ivy hair.