a person in my grief group shares about hummingbirds by Mikey Jones
a person in my grief group shares about hummingbirds
Mikey JonesLast night,
metal chairs scratched
across wooden floors,sweaty palms and heads
hung low in a circle
when a handsome manwith a scraggly beard and
hazel green eyes told us
hummingbirds can remembera person’s face in exact detail
before visiting again
in the spring. I asked himdo you think they were searching
for my father? Did they hover
above a chipped wooden porchcock their heads at an empty green
wicker chair – white flowered
cushions covered in dust.
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ABOUT MIKEY JONES
Mikey Jones is a queer Appalachian poet and visual artist living in Seattle, Washington. Before moving to the Pacific Northwest in 2021, he grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina exploring forests full of rhododendrons. Mikey is the author of Eulogy of a Rainbow Trout his debut chapbook forthcoming at Finishing Line Press, was a finalist for the 2025 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry at New Letters Magazine, and has been nominated for Best of the
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