Fanny says she and her husband had their first fight --
Fanny linguistics: Malapropisms --
Fanny says she spent it --
Fanny says sometimes it's worth the whupping --
For my grandmother's teeth, pulled when she was thirty-six --
Fanny says she got saved --
Fanny linguistics: Nickole --
Fanny says how to make potato salad --
Fanny linguistics: Superstition --
Fanny linguistics: Birdsong --
Fanny says she learned to throw the first stone --
Fanny says how to be a lady --
Fanny says she didn't use to be afraid --
Fanny linguistics: publix hieroglyphics --
Fanny Linguistics: origins --
For my grandmother's feet, swollen again --
Fanny says how to tend babies --
Fanny says she wanted to see Elvis --
Fanny says at twnty-three she learned to drive --
Fanny linguistics: how to say what you mean --
Fanny says she made him feel better --
How to dress like Fanny --
Fanny says I need to keep warm --
A genealogy of the word --
Fanny says she knows how little time is left --
For my grandmother's gallstones, reconsidered --
Fanny says she met a stripper girl in the ER --
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit --
Fanny says again the same dream on morphine --
Fanny asks me a question before I'd even ask myself --
A translation for the spiritual mediator who may speak for me to Frances Lee Cox, wherever she may be --
To my grandmother's ghost, flying with me on a plane --
Fanny linguistics: thaumatology --
The family celebrates independence --
An invitation for my grandmother --
A prayer for the self-made man --
For my grandmother's perfume, Norell --
