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I only got one explanation, a singular one
although for me it might take the form of a small intimate service
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it was to chase away the moles.
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And that's where my three children of Iceland
came and grafted themselves in.
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I picked up the whole shot again,
adding the somewhat hazy end,
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the frame trembling under the force of the wind
beating us down on the cliff:
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everything I had cut in order to tidy up, and that said
better than all the rest what I saw in that moment,
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why I held it at arms length, at zooms length,
until its last twenty-fourth of a second.
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The city of Heimaey spread out below us.
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And when five years later my friend Haroun Tazieff sent me the film
he had just shot in the same place
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I lacked only the name to learn that
nature performs its own dondo-yaki;
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the island's volcano had awakened.
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I looked at those pictures, and it was as
if the entire year '65 had just been covered with ashes.