Before Back Wax Shower

Natalia Aspesi tells Emma Dante.

Here on the barren back
formidable Del Monte
murderous Vesuvius,
Which arbor or nothing cheerful flower
Your heads solitary strew around,
Odorata broom,
Contenta deserts. (...)
Where you sit, or nice flowers, and almost
Damage commiserating others, the sky
Di send a sweet smell perfume,
that the desert consoles. (...)
Giacomo Leopardi
"The Broom or the bloom of the desert "