| As the truck made its way across the square, women and children spilled out of their houses, sat down in the dirt, and keened. |
| On the linoleum floor, Rita keened, rocking back and forth. |
| And then Brigit came and keened her son with shrieking and with crying. |
| Seagulls keened and skied, pelicans bobbed on the swells, sandpipers left sharp three-toed tracks along the tidal margin. |
| And they buried him, and put a flag-stone over his grave, and keened him there. |
| Pheola moaned, then keened, and waved her hands in front of her face, as if to ward off a swarm of bees. |
