Blue Haze

by Luis Garcia

Blue Haze
for Miles Davis

Small songs
fill silence adequately,
he said:

and a blue haze
becomes a path
leading to a forest
filled with the music
of blue ways,

and the music
becomes a path
leading to a place

where a shirt of blue sky
is being worn
by a summer afternoon’s end,

and a shirt of sunshine
is being worn
by the warm feather–gray body
of the wind.

Small songs
fill silence adequately,
he said.