Wordbirds, 52

We’ve commenced our journey backward through Webster’s 3rd. I’m picking a word near the end of each entry for each letter—a word that interests me for some reason or a word I’d not ever known before—and surrounding it with a frayed coat of doggerel.

Words that flew into my life from Webster’s 3rd …

azafran noun

saffron

He loved to cook with azafran—

He always did the best he can;

His wife became his biggest fan.

But one day it did not turn out—

And then he sank into a pout

And soon was filled with deepest doubt.

“Oh no,” his wife said (she was Fran).

“Don’t worry ’bout the azafran.

I love you lots, my husband, Dan!”

And Dan was somewhat mollified—

So much, in fact, that he sobbed and cried.

Then cooked some sliced potatoes—fried.