Reflection

The poem “Bottle Cap Rain” was inspired by the precipitation cycle. The cycle starts with water molecules evaporating from the ocean and ends as clean rain from the clouds when it actually precipitates. However if the cycle were to ever pick up something bigger, I figured there would be a lot of trash raining down on us. Which would be fitting considering how much litter is poured into the oceans each year. In this poem, I wanted to focus on the sheer extensiveness of plastic garbage. There are big, hulking objects of plastic, but there are also the small ways plastic is incorporated into many materials. There are literal cities of trash floating at the middle of five different gyres in this world. Quite simply if the ocean were to ever give our discarded things back to us, we would be buried alive.