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.