What’s Shared What’s Not
for Adam Zagajewski

with bottle, with the water in it, a relationship
however sick, able to kiss it, suck at it

not denied privacy, intimacy
a bottle, a poet unwell, reading in public

a podium, a microphone, his bottle of water
makes his presentation possible

Zagajewski, grateful for this relationship
with bottle,
with water contained in it

so inexpensive when compared with
what it makes possible

Adam, able to read, we able to hear poetry
be transformed by it

how intimate, poet, the bottle, the water he sips


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
2:11 a.m. 08.11.09