“I remember bumping into you everywhere”

“the two of them are watching / as the burning incense tumbles in the air / catching alight the waifu pillow / that the Hill Folk use”

A zine by Sezal

“It’s time to retrograde”

“Do you embrace nature or

Does nature embrace you?”

“What does she think of me in the daylight? What do I think of her?”

“was my brother ever soft?”

Behind the scenes of Princess Forever, Dreamer Isioma’s episodic exploration of space, spirituality, and selfhood.

“The musty trees of your old letters,

alphabet hanging from twigs.”

“That thing cannot touch us. I won’t let it. We won’t let it.”

“I WALK AWAY AND LEAVE MY MIND UNDER HER CUSTODY

WHILE I LIVE THE DAY I HAVE LIVED FIVE HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE.”

“A kingdom of misfits, the kingdom of slug.”

“And I will die paralyzed, until there is somewhere important I have to be.

Probably.”

“If you carve a window to look through the heart,

sometimes, on the other side a song is kneeling in the dirt.”

“The táltos key ability is the trance. The révülés.

They send their soul into the stars to stir the others.”

Sometimes you didn’t even know where to go until the floor stopped rumbling and the rusty doors opened. And there you were, right where you needed to be.

Created during the dark days of winter, “Dreams from the Deep”
is a mixed media collection composed of artwork and creative writing. The artwork is a cyanotype created with foraged botanicals and sea salt from the beach and woods.

“I have not let go of your pictures for days.”