Writing in the Shower

By Bonnie Weiss

A collection of stories and poems filled with vivid memories, halfway between verse and prose. The words are honest, sensitive, and profound, but also sometimes humorous, sometimes deep. The style is lyrical and deceptively simple.

This evocative collection is filled with colorful images and description. See and hear the bees and hummingbirds in such poems as “My Little Monet’s Garden”

I sat on the bench underneath the spider web.
It floated over my head like a veil.

A trio of hummingbirds, a buzzing of bees
musically danced, sucking their honey all around me.
They stayed, hovered, and hummed their own song.

I sat wrapped in silence
until a thought of how to
put this into words
broke the spell—
and they flew away.

Find the beauty and joy as you walk the poet’s path to truth and enlightenment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Mar 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9781480856387

Bonnie Weiss

Bonnie Weiss is also the author of “With My Other Hand.” She is a modern dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor. She is a composer and songwriter who has recorded orchestrations of many of her modern, symphonic songs. Bonnie currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents,

organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products

of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Cover Painting by Elizabeth McCord

Painting, Hummingbird, by Juliana Martineli Van Leuvin

Photo, Pure Joy, by Samantha Varela

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Archway Publishing rev. date: 10/12/2022

I step into the shower.

The warm water embraces and caresses me.

For a moment,

Thought is suspended,

Then it is rearranged in order of priorities.

The agenda is set,

And off into the day I go.

"Paradise must always be recreated

It lingers under the appearance.

Everything holds within itself, as potentiality

The intimate harmony of its existence—

Everything strives toward its lost form."

Narcissus—Eros and Civilization by Marcuse

Special Thanks

Pat Abrams for her editing and wonderful creative advice.

Ronnie Serr for his confidence and support

Rusty Berkus who practices the art of encouragement

&

To the showers I’ve had

Contents

Impressions

Writing In The Car (while driving)

Entrance

My Little Monet’s Garden

You, Hummingbird

Translucent Butterfly

Jewels

Metamorphize

Therefore

The Mystical Orchard

Whirling Dervish

You Know How To Swim

The Little Boat

Espiritu, A Gift

I Never Noticed That Because I’m Always Watching The Lines

Music

The Dance

Ashes To Ashes