Evelyn Berry
Tease
I never turn down a free beer.
Flirt with anyone with a wolf cut.
Show off my freckles in dresses
that drop off my shoulders.
I want to be desired, don’t you?
Don’t you know everyone
you’ve ever met is gonna die?
Kiss me, don’t stop, please.
Remind me I’m still here.
Evelyn Berry (she/her) is a trans, Southern writer, editor, and educator. She's the author of Grief Slut (Sundress Publications, 2024) and Buggery (Bateau Press, 2020), winner of the BOOM Chapbook Prize. She's a recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship and 2025 South Carolina Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, South Carolina Review, Gigantic Sequins, Moist, Taco Bell Quarterly, and elsewhere. She's the creator of the educational series Ecstatic Stanzas. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina with her partner and their pets.