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There's hardly ever a day
at the live picture
that I don't look
of the mountain.
Suddenly on the 19th -the eruption of a sulfur cloud!

In the atmosphere of fear and confusion following 9/11,
the smoking volcano seems peaceful by comparison;
it's austere beauty and aloofness strangely soothing.

Anxiously I stay up through the night. Each time I hit the reload button
I am prepared to witness an inferno. Iwate-san though has returned to omitting the usual puffs of white or light gray smoke. Like an old man quietly enjoying a pipe, snickering about my folly.

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