Malta: Joe Friggieri

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DEPARTING by Joe Friggieri When I'm about to leave forever I want it to be at night with crickets singing in the corn and a full moon in the branches of the eucalyptus and I want someone to hold the window wide open so I can pick a fragrant flower and a big star. And you, my love, when the wind moans behind the door and whirls among the cypress trees like a weary soul, come up on tiptoe and draw the curtain. from Cross Winds, Wilfion Books, 1980