Leah Mueller
Neighbor Zen
The man who lives
above my apartment
urinates often,
his streams chiming
like Pacific Northwest rain.
He also drops heavy
objects onto the floor
and curses, repeatedly.
Every few minutes, I hear
his sounds of release,
some easier than others,
reminding me not to hang on
too tightly to anything.
Bio
Leah Mueller is an independent writer from Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of two chapbooks, "Queen of Dorksville" (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2012), and "Political Apnea" (Locofo Chaps, 2017), and two books, "Allergic to Everything" (Writing Knights Press, 2015) and "The Underside of the Snake" (Red Ferret Press, 2015). Leah was a winner in the 2012 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest, and a featured poet at the 2015 New York Poetry Festival. Her work has been published in Blunderbuss, Outlook Springs, University of Chicago Memoryhouse, Atticus Review, Open Thought Vortex, Sadie Girl Press, Origins Journal, Quail Bell, Silver Birch Press, and many other publications.