Tumescent…What a spicy little word this is! Dictionary.com provides a rated G definition, focusing almost exclusively as it applies to the use of language, but a deeper probe (sorry, I’m having way too much fun with this one) reveals quite an expanded explication!  Here is the definition from Oxford’s Learner’s Dictionary: 

 
When it comes to crafting today’s Haiku….what to do….what to do?!😜

A Tumescent Haiku

To be tumescent
some employ a thesaurus,
others…viagra!

~ kat ~ 9 October 2016