The Wheel is a survey of the turning circles and cycles of religion, history, politics, myth, nature, and culture, from Stonehenge to the war in Iraq, from tree rings to the "circular edge of the urban" separating the wild from the sanitized suburban world that remains firmly in the natural world, no matter what humans think. The poems are provocative, political, humane, and funny.

"This is one sweet book. Jordan Jones writes with such a pure voice, offering up all the matters of life that he cares deeply about and the universe requires that we all care about. Very lovely refreshing true poems; it's a book to believe in."
— Sandra McPherson, author of Elegies for the Hot Season

"Jordan Jones opens The Wheel with: 'Words are liquid we pour onto the earth.' Ah, but how his words pour into our ears to sing a spinning world in a lathe-turned sky! In haiku-like evocatons at the 'circular edge of the urban,' he reads us the relief maps of tree rings and fingerprints, childhood memories and coyote tracks, Stonehenge and the Book of Ezekiel, the Orpheus legend and a lunar eclipse. Contrasting what the ancients revered in the circle with the circular lies and spins of our present administration, he provides a context for our 'temporary empire' of domestic sub-divisions and foreign occupations within the larger cycle of nature. In this defiantly upbeat book every page vigorously demonstrates,
'A practice of dying makes a living / wise, long, & sweet.'"
— Kirpal Gordon, author of Eros in Sanskrit

"With The Wheel, Jordan Jones demonstrates that the best poetry is an engaged and active response to the world around us. His cycles of poems range from the sublimely philosophical to the deeply personal, to the scorchingly political. In a time of poetic mumbles and whispers, Jones stands up and shouts."
— Greg Boyd, author of The Nambuli Papers