Ian Parker

Ponytail Dream

after "Twenty-One Love Poems" by Adrienne Rich

She pulls her hair back and I

see a patch of gray cutting through like I dreamed

it would and I want to say you

are beautiful today like you were

fifty years ago, so much so a

lifetime is just this poem

Ian Parker is a poet and musician living in Portland, Oregon. His best listeners remain his cats, who are wholly ambivalent about his work.