2 Poems for Autumn from Sally Thomas

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On today's show: two sonnets from Sally Thomas for autumn. You can read them here: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/two-sonnets-sally-thomas

Sally Thomas is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and teacher. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1964, holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Vanderbilt University, and has pursued graduate coursework in English and creative writing at the University of Memphis and the University of Utah. She has taught in both the high-school and university classroom, as well as in online programs for homeschooled high-school students. Additionally, she has served as poet-in-residence in various elementary, middle, and high-school settings in the United States and Great Britain, where she lived from 1999 to 2003.

She lives with her theologian husband and the youngest two of their four children in North Carolina. A home educator and advocate for the Charlotte Mason educational philosophy, as well as a working writer, she is available for reading or speaking engagements at literary or home-education events. Sally’s most recent book is Motherland: Poems (Able Muse, 2020). Twitter: @SallyThomasNC

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Daily Poem. I'm David Kern, and today is Friday, October 9th, 2020.
0:06.8	Today on the show, I'm going to share with you two sonnets by Sally Thomas. Sally Thomas is a poet and fiction writer who was born in Tennessee in 1964.
0:16.7	She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Fallen Water, and Richelda's of Walsingham.
0:22.2	And then she also had her first full-length poetry book.
0:26.1	It's called Motherland, and it was a finalist for the Abelmew's Book Award.
0:29.7	It's available now.
0:30.9	We've published her in Forma, and she's also been published in First Things, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Southern Poetry Review, dabbled
0:37.8	things, Plow Quarterly, and many others. The poems that I'm going to read today were published
0:42.8	recently over at Plow. You can go to plow.com and you can find them there. The post is called
0:48.8	Two Sonnets. That's by Sally Thomas, it's from September 29th. And I enjoyed both of these a great
0:54.0	deal and wanted to share them with you here in the podcast September 29th. And I enjoyed both of these a great deal
0:54.2	and wanted to share them with you here in the podcast.
0:56.8	So I'm going to read both of them.
0:58.9	I'll probably read both of them twice
1:00.0	because, given that they are sonnets,
1:01.7	they're not terribly long.
1:03.1	But I think you'll enjoy these, this time of year.
1:06.5	So here first is, in the fullness of time.
1:12.2	Time, the hermit thinks, is always full.
1:17.7	Unlike the moon, it does not wax and wane,
1:22.2	but incubates the future endlessly.
1:26.7	It fares forth daily with its pregnant waddle,
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