Crystalline Structure, Threat of Weather
Bin¹ Ramke

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a founder²
 of the first American school for
 the deaf, Wallace Stevens, and Samuel
 Colt—three buried in Cedar³ Hill
 Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut.

Everything is necessary, nothing
 is sufficient. Speak to see
 who listens.

A manner of speaking as necessary attribute, 
 ubiquitous（普遍存在的） , annunciatory（预告的） as bells, a rollicking（欢乐的） 
 of winter air. Who speaks
 still dies, eventually, if recent

events are any guide. I am silent, standing⁴
 hat in hand and watching the spadefuls flung
 onto caskets, a tear here and there a hand wrung⁵

while graying clouds dissipate（驱散） , dilapidate（荒废） and
 dutiful humans homeward heading. We borrowed
 the word from the Norse, die, but everyone always
 had such a word, surely. If words were sure.

Here's a threat of snow and eventually fallen
 it will cover and convert the landscape; the littering
 beneath the landscape the litter of us recent

dead decaying fallen as is our state—late 
 lamented（令人遗憾的） living lying there a layer ghostly beneath
 the blooming sod. Sad or funny? Funny. Funereal⁶.
 They dissipate, hissing⁷; hear the sun strike each flake⁸.