wildscape. literary journal

Issue 1 // January 2025

Issue 1 Cover Art: Boogiepop by Jacelyn Yap

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SHORTCUTS:
fiction // nonfiction // art // poetry

F I C T I O N

Chris Clemens // Raw Talent Acquisition


Ellis Eden // Velvet Masonry


Linea Jantz // Rosemary, Lavender and Thyme


Phebe Jewell // Room Enough



N O N F I C T I O N

Angela Townsend // Good Mammals


Jennifer Anne Gordon // For Sale: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare


Jessica Bell // Why My Love Handles Heavy


Ky L. Gerbush // Directions for Finding Home


Meredith Hughes // Totally Non-Hypothetical Reasons Why I Either
Set Fire to My Phone or Swipe Right on Dating Apps


Michelle Li // Wither on the Vine

Sandy Feinstein // In the Other World

A R T


Jacelyn Yap // Boogiepop (issue 1 cover art) // Impermanent

Aaron Lelito // Cardinal Song

Beth Kephart // Nocturnal Impulse

Christopher Woods // Window Vines, Boston

David A. Goodrum // Overreach #2

Jenha Paulino // Don’t Hold Your Tears

Jo Rohrbacker // Desert Monsoon

Jonathan Kusnerek // Of Elsewheres // Guardian // Don’t Feed the Solace

Katie Hughbanks // Dance, Child // Hope Bubble

Kayla Starling // The Long Goodbye // The World Around Us // Self Portrait

Kim Arthurs // Sleepwalking // Dreaming of Crows on a Super Blue Moon

Larena Nellies-Ortiz // Morning Glory // After the Rain

Mandy Robertson // Fox Dance

Rachel Coyne // Petals

Ruthenium // Arboreal Ripple // Shades of Shade

Sean Bw Parker // Bihter With Coffee

Tinamarie Cox // In the Alyssum

P O E T R Y

FEATURED POET: ELLY KATZ
Elly’s interview and poems have been rescinded and deleted from this issue due to plagiarism.

Ace Boggess // Two Poems:
Small Fires // “What Do You Say to Strangers That Hold Your Fate?”

Allison Mei-Li // If I Had My Own

Ammara Younas // portrait of my father in his grave

Amy G. Smith // Two Poems:
In the Wind, I Think I Hear Your Voice // Ode to Blessing

Andrea Aldrete // A NONET FOR DESIRE

B. A. Hutchison // Reflections

Barbara E. Hunt // Becoming Inclined

Camden Michael Jones // On Fatherhood – Year One

Caroline Wiygul // GRIEF IS SUCH A WILD LANDSCAPE

Cat Speranzini // The Power of the Divine Woman

Catarina Delgado // Consider

Christiana Doucette // Midnight Punctuation

Christine Potter // Without Shadows

Darrell Petska // Along the Ice Age Trail

Ela Kumcuoglu // A wish that we could make the same mistakes

Elizabeth Anne Schwartz // Ordinary Time

Emily R. Paget // Two Poems:
Sing to me // Buried

Erin Jamieson // Stains

Hunter Blackwell // Aberration

Ian Parker // SYNTAX

Joseph Geskey // Marshmallow Test

Joshua Lillie // Dopamine Fast

Joshua St. Claire // Flower Haiku

K. McNeil // encomium of the canary

Kate MacAlister // Two Poems:
|FEN| dawn history // |FEN| vesper vesper

Keith Moul // Need Considered at the Shore

L. Ward Abel // Two Poems:
Frontarrears // The Score

Lana Hechtman Ayers // Believe You Me

Lauren Merryfield // Awestruck

Mike Chrisman // Or

Naomi Mills // Tell Me Again (burning haibun, 3 parts)

Nicholas Grooms // Where Did the Eyes Go?

O.P. Jha // red tentacles

Paul Hostovsky // Faithless

Richard Jordan // Nothing Biting

Rowan Tate // helium

Shelley K. Davenport // Syzygy

Simone Parker // Two Poems:
summer dies in the mouth of my aunt // Confessional

Stacy Marie Miller // deep shade

Stephen K. Kim // By Any Other Name

Terry Tierney // Apology

Thomas Rions-Maehren // Science

Victoria Spires // Sometimes the sun is hot, and colourless

Will Davis // icarus ghosted the birds

yuan changming // Last Leaf