Dr Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci

Ihave gleaned the most essential words-memories that connect me with my mother with whom I have a rather ‘dangerous’ (for others) deep strange beautiful and unbelievably strong relationship bordering on the ‘mystical’. Telepathy, Dettol, Strada Stretta, duwwi balli/diju balli, imqarrun il-forn, fainting shocks, coma, running towards, bebbux-snails, burnt toast, shocking intuition, books, lioness’ anger, fighter, jealousy, dictatorial-queen, uncompromising hidden love, Christmas, Manikata, Ziju Elia and Ziju Cens, Giuseppe's love for Milano, is-Sur Cikk, hospital, University, ‘imqareb’, books, classics, encyclopedias, prizes, patata l-forn, lozor, ritratti, art, music, exam results, airport, crabs, sea, Achille Lauro, Sydney, il-Morning Star, il-Cotton Club, il-Metro, crossword, I Spy, St Duminku, Figolla and Prinjolata, awaiting still, awaiting yet, awaiting again, anchovies on trees, snails in roof cage, hidden eggs and soup, come this evening, please, never again, no he won’t, ‘mur qerr’, Chalet, Band groups, theatre, throwing away pocket money into the Chalet sea, diving from above, shriek, testing Newton’s laws of gravity, double shriek, proving Einstein’s relativity wrong, triple shriek, punishment, rocket, astronomy, Mad Scientist lab in bedroom, faint, Kennedy times two, Martin Luther King, medicine, check-up, explosion and piano, end of an adventure, beginning of a new one, articles, pride, tears, first and last hug, “you cannot believe nor imagine the happiness I felt when you were born”, telepathy again.