evergreen. which, unlike some previous choices, is an actual color, like verdant, and is also apropos—a symbol of hope and of life—for this series which enriches this decades-long set of anachro-biographical poems, because i’m regaling tales of love, yes, to whomever (my gratitude to you all, most especially if you really do exist) might stumble upon any of these acronymic pieces, this small batch of episodic ditties set herein are but a few vague meanderings of what had been nonexistent for what felt like forever. until 3.5 years ago when life began anew.