<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573178" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song of the Night Woman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Empty footsteps click across<br>the wet sidewalk, faceless people pass.<br>Cabs honk by and splash the feet<br>where hookers cuss at the curbs of streets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Empty footsteps come to call<br>at the creaking doorway down the hall.<br>In a room that hisses of pungent mold, <br>the plaster crumbles from mildewed walls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She waits in a tattered robe of white<br>on an unkept mattress in the night.<br>Through the window she hears the worried dog call.<br>A cat picks up his pointless howl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He holds on in wild embrace, <br>he comes a man without a face.<br>The dollars down from cold embrace, <br>she turns to the window to hide disgrace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The empty echo leaves the hall<br>of shadowed footsteps as they fall.<br>Away and further into dark, <br>two lovers embrace in the park.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LaClaire Mitchell-Nzerem (Cader Publishing, first pub (review magazine July 27-July 16,1990 pg.11) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=LaClaire+mitchell+nzerem">LaClaire mitchell nzerem</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573178" data-title="Song of the Night Woman de LaClaire mitchell nzerem" data-description="Empty footsteps click across the wet sidewalk, faceless people pass. Cabs honk by and splash the feet where hookers cuss at the curbs of streets. Empty footsteps come to call at the creaking doorway down the hall. In a room that hisses of pungent..."></div> </div> </div>

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