miles away

In your poem you casually name-dropped 'Miles' [Davis] and I thought to myself of the many miles between your poem and the kind of jazz Miles created.

from one to another

You only have so many notes, and what makes a style is how you get from one note to another.
—Dizzy Gillespie*

You only have so many words, and what makes a style is how you get from one word to another.

*Quoted in J. D. McClatchy’s Sweet Theft: A poet’s commonplace book (Counterpoint Press, 2016)