Two moons

The music was upbeat, and yet the mood was strangely muted.

The dancers were moving through a galaxy you thought was ours until you saw the second moon caught in the flashing strobes.

Only I must have understood what Hajda had been thinking. When we were children, Hajda’s father used to tell us stories about a planet in a far off galaxy. Just as in this representation, there were two moons. –

The moons could be seen on alternate months. One moon, he said, was for happiness, the other melancholy.