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The stars screamed when removed and taken, but nobody in town understood their quiet language. And so they took them and carried the moon to the other side of the mountain, where they poured them all into the lake to give light to the underworld, so their dead woud see their way... But as the stars can swim they returned to the heavens, while the moon filled up through the holes and sank. You can still see her memory every now and again amongst thetearful stars

"that night we stole"

oil on canvas 25x30 Cambridge 171002

© Elena Arevalo Melville 2003