For Miles Davis, from The Best American Poetry, 2014, Guest Editor, Terrance Hayes, and Senior Editor, David Lehman. More on the poet, here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/joel-dias-porter
from Elegy Indigo / by Joel Dias-Porter
How long does it take to hear what silence can say?
I stand at a stoplight, waiting for the colors to change.
Am bird obsessed. So, this one is from Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds, ed. by Billy Collins, with paintings by David Allen Sibley. More information on Collins and Ciardi at www.poets.org.
from Bird Watching / by John Ciardi
A bird is a bird as long as it is
there. Then it is a miracle our crumbs and
sunflower seeds caught and let go.
Twenty-three years today since our father had his gun salute and American-flag folding. He was not a pilot, but he was a B-52 navigator.
from The Lost Pilot / by James Tate
and you, passing over again,
fast, perfect, and unwilling
to tell me that you are doing
well
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