_Merriam-Webster Dictionary - Word of the Day
15/04/2026_
Geoffrey Frank William Spavins
I walked into the mayhem and found my name rearranged.
Letters flew like startled starlings,
G’s looping into F’s,
V’s vaulting over W’s,
the whole flock refusing to perch in order.
Geoffrey became Fey Ogre,
a mild‑mannered creature blinking in the dust.
Frank turned Rank F, then Farnk,
as if vowels were optional in a crisis.
William split into I Will Am,
a declaration hiding inside a name all along.
And Spavins -- oh, Spavins --
spun itself into Pass In V, Van’s Sip,
and once, briefly, Pianvs,
a Roman magistrate who never existed.
In the swirl I saw fragments of myself
I’d forgotten I carried:
a Wary Lifespan,
a Swan‑like Fervor,
a Pilgrim of New Faces
stepping through the alphabet’s open door.
When the storm settled,
my name lay before me
not broken,
but broadened,
a map of possible selves
spelled in the dust of the day’s disorder.
And I gathered the letters gently,
knowing now
that mayhem is only the world’s way
of reminding us
how many ways we might be arranged.