bruise nom i was just looking at my legs and found a huge bruise i don't know how i got it and it's not even sore just all red and purple and weird which is weird 070525 ... raze a caramel-coloured reminder of something i didn't know i was doing until the deed was done a sign devoid of text that tells me look before you run when i was only walking with too much conviction for my own good 211116 ... past as the swelling recedes, yellowed bruises appear beneath the barely transparent layer of over-stretched skin. 230413 ... tender_square on every walk she challenges my authority: pulling and prancing. taking the leather leash into her mouth and eating her way out of submission. you can't reason with an animal. the only language they understand is violence. she's long and lean, tall. and half my body weight. she yanks and my wrist, my shoulder joint, my knees shock in sudden sprint. i pull the choke collar high to the base of her mountainous ears. she squirms and fights with her whole body, takes my hand into her mouth and traps. i will not relent. i take my knee into her rib cage when she rises and leaps. this is a test and i cannot lose. 230617 what's it to you? who go blather from