#ingeborg bachmann

“Why was everything so terrible and so beautiful.”

~Ingeborg Bachmann, from “Ein Wildermuth”

sensationsofconnection:

I step outside
myself, out of my eyes,
hands, mouth, outside
of myself I
step, a bundle
of goodness and godliness
that must make good
this devilry
that has happened

Ingeborg Bachmann, I step out of myself

franza’s rape and death in the book of franza:

vs. the narrator of malina(who at this point survives)

Richard Siken,Crush//Ingeborg Bachmann//Oscar Wilde,The Picture of Dorian Gray //Anne Carson,The Beauty of the Husband