Doors closing, potentials shrinking, daylight fading

Doors closing, potentials shrinking, daylight fading, time wasting, excuses multiplying

Systems failing, cadavers stiffening, stores boarding, hopes dashing, futures constricting

Viruses spreading, costs increasing, wages reducing, species disappearing

Baby girl smiling up from food stamp shopping cart

Arms spending, rain dirtying, litter decaying, wounds infecting, fugitives harboring

Advertisers braying, cutbacks rippling, healthcare delaying, emissions ignoring

Beer refreshing, credit shrinking, rivers festering, literacy declining, frogs mutating

Santa Maria in a long skirt, pedaling slowly to hospice

Evil lurking, politicians smirking, bankers grasping, soils disintegrating, blogs croaking

Germs resisting, suburbs vivisecting, dream recurring, heaven awaiting

Studies denying, particulates hanging, entertainment stupefying, executives whining

Mountain trout darting in tiny, steep stream

Faults slipping, choices narrowing, paradigms shifting, bulldozers eviscerating

Cash hemorrhaging, hopes dashing, factories idling, teeth yellowing, ears ringing

Production contracting, jobs outsourcing, homes foreclosing, skies darkening

Apple tree blossoming in empty parking lot

Cattle slaughtering, cancers spreading, cosmetics hiding, results faking, meadows raping

Paint flaking, milk coagulating, lawyers siphoning, lobbyists bribing, budget trimming

Pupils dilating, scandal enveloping, profit taking, depression developing

Blackbirds gathering noisily in trees pushing out leaves

Analysts proclaiming, researchers probing, veils pulling, drapes drawing, curtains lowering

Scenes shifting, mud tracking, hidden seeking, riddles speaking, death cheating

Fairytales smashing, fish flashing, markets crashing, eyes casting, breaks taking

Old meth queen seeking toothless truck stop redemption

Breaths gasping, mines stripping, tails wagging, children begging, feet dragging

Souls losing, bills piling, credit drying, military muscling, signals mixing, whores enticing

Peasants liberating, senses straining, liberal bashing, tranquility trashing, shells raining

Safe reading in small warm light on rainy evening

Rejections automating, pilgrims seeking, preachers groping, nerds networking

Deficits mounting, hopes glimmering, research denigrating, soil eroding, pigs torturing

Music drifting, benefits cutting, retirement postponing, education rejecting, odor cloying

Small box turtle trying to cross busy road, all alone

Sunset amazing, thunder rippling, rainbow shimmering, distinction blurring, years hazing

Quiet shattering, knowledge smattering, reason fleeing, minds making, trouble brewing

Glimpses fleeting, shadows playing, echoes fading, memories remaining, life saving

Abandoned door creaking, opening and closing, only from wind