Crystalline Structure, Threat of Weather

　　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(預(yù)告的) as bells, a rollicking(歡樂的)

　　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(驅(qū)散) , dilapidate(荒廢) 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(令人遺憾的) living lying there a layer ghostly beneath

　　the blooming sod. Sad or funny? Funny. Funereal.

　　They dissipate, hissing; hear the sun strike each flake.