Park Lane South, Queens
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They watched together as the hollering ambulance drove the others away and then the quiet rose up with the moon until all of it seemed only terrible. Claire held him close to her then and she started to sing, any song come to mind, just the cheer of her mettle against any fear of faint heart.
He still realized the house … and the scents of the family within, growing farther and farther away now. “She wheeled a wheelbarrow,” she sang, “through streets broad and narrow. Singing cockles and mussels. Alive alive-o.”
And over the street in the pale sturgeon’s moon, with the grace of his ancestor’s, stood Lü the Wanderer, the old Siamese. He stretched and he walked through the web that had been there. “Singing cockles and mussels,” Claire sang. “Alive alive-o,” she sang to his bright open eyes.
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