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A lighthouse in the Sahel looks like a collage
until you see the ocean at the edge of the sand and salt.
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Crews of transcontinental planes are rotated on Sal.
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Their club brings to this frontier of nothingness a small touch
of the seaside resort which makes the rest still more unreal.
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They feed the stray dogs that live on the beach.
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I found my dogs pretty nervous tonight;
they were playing with the sea as I had never seen them before.
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Listening to Radio Hong Kong later on I understood:
today was the first day of the lunar new year,
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and for the first time in sixty years
the sign of the dog met the sign of water.
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Out there, eleven thousand miles away,
a single shadow remains immobile