Trash floats at 20 miles per day. Two years after the Japanese earthquake, people are finding pieces of oriental culture on beaches from Alaska to Oregon. Commercial fishermen watch plastic bottles float by when they are far out to sea. Chopsticks tangled in nets making a table of fresh sushi. Scratches of foreign language on plastic lanterns. Sheets of corrugated roofing bent in unnatural angles like cupped hands—palms up with pools of salt. Shiny parts of cars. Shards of glass washed smooth into ocean marbles. They float deeper in the sea; about seven miles per day. I may plan a vacation to Oregon in a few months to see them wash ashore.
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