{"id":1003,"date":"2011-07-01T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:14:22","slug":"heterophemize-by-kevin-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/heterophemize-by-kevin-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Heterophemize by Kevin Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kevin<\/a><\/h2>\n

Heterophemize<\/h2>\n

by Kevin Brown<\/p>\n

Heterophemize
\nv. — to say something different from what you mean to say<\/p>\n

You are my noun,
\nI set out to say,
\nmy person, place,
\nand thing, but I verbed<\/p>\n

instead, stammered
\nout adjective
\nafter adjective, but spoke
\nso adverbly you<\/p>\n

exclamated. I thought
\nwe were gerunding
\nwell, but you saw nothing
\nbut a split infinitive,
\nseparating to from be<\/p>\n

together, misplaced
\nmodifiers left us,
\nnothing.<\/p>\n

A fragment.<\/p>\n

Syntax and semantics stumped
\nme, failed to notice the lack
\nof a coordinating<\/p>\n

conjunction, always more
\nof a math person, where variables
\nare solved for, able
\nto understand what x equals<\/p>\n

and y,<\/p>\n

where one
\nplus one
\nalways equals two.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Kevin Brown is an Associate Professor at Lee University and an MFA student at Murray State University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, Folio, Connecticut Review, South Carolina Review, Stickman Review, Atlanta Review, and Palimpsest, among other journals. He has also published essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, InsideHigherEd.com, The Teaching Professor, and Eclectica. He has one book of poetry, Exit Lines (Plain View Press, 2009), a chapbook, Abecedarium (Finishing Line Press), and a forthcoming book of scholarship: They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heterophemize by Kevin Brown Heterophemize v. — to say something different from what you mean to say You are my noun, I set out to say, my person, place, and thing, but I verbed instead, stammered out adjective after adjective, but spoke so adverbly you exclamated. I thought we were gerunding well, but you saw…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems-about-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t