Scudder Parker | The Sun Magazine

Scudder Parker

Scudder Parker has been a Protestant minister, a state senator, a utility regulator, and a candidate for governor. At the age of seventy-four, he is settling into his new job as a poet. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

— From November 2017
Poetry

A Stranger Visits

A man in clothes the shape of sleep / pushes his battered bicycle, / wire baskets front and back, / halfway up the drive and stops.

November 2017
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