CJ Scruton
CJ Scruton is a trans, non-binary poet from the Lower Mississippi River Valley. They currently live on the Great Lakes, where they teach English and research ghost stories. Locally, they are a founding member and director of the Milwaukee Queer Writing Project and serve on the board of the Milwaukee Native American Literary Cooperative. Their work appears in The Journal, New South, Juked, CutBank, and other publications.
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In Transfemme Quarantine
when your mask covers your lipstick but not your earrings they take longer to _________ you at the grocery store or they don’t __________ their eyes to you at all what I’m really trying to say is _________ what I’m trying to _________ is the shape of yellow and green things that weren’t […]
Self-Portraits in Jurassic Park
if I must be all the evil in the world, the box made by my father gods to fence me in, if the gaps in my sequence lie, waiting to be replaced, recovered, if it is easier to devour the unsuspecting, if what they don’t have to feel in themselves until they see me, the […]
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YOU’RE IN LOVE
CJ Scruton reflects on the origins of their poems “Self-Portraits in Jurassic Park” and “In Transfemme Quarantine” as well as the act of misremembering.