In The Storm Of Roses

Portrait of Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann 1926–1973

Wherever we turn in the storm of roses, the night is lit up by thorns, and the thunder of leaves, once so quiet within the bushes, rumbling at our heels.

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