How To Sweeten Unsweetened Bakers

pale afternoon and evening of April absorbed

Noon
pale and absorbed in a hot wall 's garden, listen
among the thorns and brambles of blackbirds
pop, hiss of snakes.
cracks in the ground or in the vetch
spy rows of red ants
ch 'is now broken and now s' intertwined
a high of tiny heaps.
observed between the leaves flutter away flakes of sea

while they stand trembling Scricco
of cicadas from the bald peaks.
And going in the sun that dazzles
felt sad wonder
com 'is all his life and his labor

in this following a wall on top of that sharp shards of bottle .

Eugenio Montale