Unlikely Trees is a collection that explores. It travels on foot, by car, bus, plane, and ship. Yet, it is through people, places, and things which the poems work to discover the better part of our humanity- faithfulness, love, compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, hope and perseverance. It possesses an image-bearing intensity that often allows for small and common things (like a morning bus ride or a leaf) to become expansive, luminous and transformative; and reduces the seemingly overwhelming to basic elements. Michael Jones poems possess a sensibility that is associative and offer a perspective that indulges in the everyday wondrous and miraculous.