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.