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“If she could just speak”: Melissa Dalton-Bradford’s “Phoning Home”

Tyler    May 9, 2015 May 9, 2019    Comments Off on “If she could just speak”: Melissa Dalton-Bradford’s “Phoning Home”
"Telephone" from plenty.r. on Flickr (BY SA)

“Telephone” from plenty.r. on Flickr (BY SA)

Melissa Dalton-Bradford’s “Phoning Home”

Post 9/31 in my A Mother Here reading series.

(Click/tap here to read the poem.)

Poem:

http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/9-Dalton-Bradford_Phoning-Home.mp3
(Direct link to audio file.)

Commentary:

http://fireinthepasture.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/9-Comment-on-Dalton-Bradford_Phoning-Home.mp3
(Direct link to audio file.)


A Mother Here, Poet Highlights     "If she could just speak": Melissa Dalton-Bradford's "Phoning Home", A Mother Here, communion, connection, Eternal Mother, Heavenly Mother, love, Melissa Dalton-Bradford, mom, Mother in Heaven, mothers, mourning, prayer, the Father

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