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Crystalline Structure, Threat of Weather
Bin Ramke
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a founder
of the first American school for
the deaf, Wallace Stevens, and Samuel
Colt—three buried in Cedar 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, standing
hat in hand and watching the spadefuls flung
onto caskets, a tear here and there a hand wrung 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. Funereal.
They dissipate, hissing; hear the sun strike each flake. | 
