A Toast

Cheers to future memories
The ghosts not yet dead
To ruddy limbs and fairy dreams
To due dates still outstanding
To incubating miseries
Regrets waiting to be hatched
To gestating happy times
To braveries and cowardices
Seeking simple zygote union
To the world we will never know
And the one we’ll soon remember

-T. Weeks
(A response to “From Far Dakota’s Canyons [June 25, 1876]”)