Plastic Water Bottle: Origin Story

An essay in Witness magazine. An excerpt: “This morning, flattened like roadkill in front of my house, post-trash and recycling pickup day, its plastic sleeve displaying the logo and “best by” and “bottled on” date long since stripped and taken by the wind, the 8 a.m. sunshine catching one of its crumpled diamond facets refracting the light back to me, not unbeautiful for a Monday.”