If 'wanton' Not Now, When? Poem by Douglas Scotney

the title intrigues me. the rest of this comment is what i just sent to you as a message. ===================================================== Doug, i'd like the sound of erect more than erecting stems. 'erecting' makes me think the flowers are erecting something other than themselves. maybe i'm all wet? i googled sensual vs sensuous and found this: The terms share the root sens-, which means to arouse the senses. Sensual has referred to gratifying carnal, especially sexual, senses since before 1425. Sensuous is believed to have been created by John Milton in 1641 to mean relating to the senses instead of the intellect without the sexual connotation..................INTERESTING favorite lines so far: and from bees kicking like contented cats in poppies' fluffy, capacious anthers, ................ when i tried to connect wanton and libertine (which are synonyms, i read) to: the tall poppy syndrome: i found this: Australia’s tall poppy syndrome. [a quote from an interview with Naomi Watts, actor/actress] “The poppies grow together and they’re supposed to be uniform. If one grows up too high, it means it’s got to be slashed and cut back down to size. People don’t like it if you succeed too much. It makes them feel bad, ” she explains. “I don’t know how much it is there now. I’m not living there all the time, but I do remember experiencing it. I remember some friends. We were all rooming together and I was dressed up for an audition. I remember them going, ‘Wow, you’re really dressed up. You look really glamorous, ’ like you’re not supposed to try hard or have any ambition, so you stand out if you are slightly ambitious or goal-oriented.” For more on Naomi Watts, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. Doug(las) , i find this and i think some of your other poems a little over my head. the English, i think is correct, but it is not the way i usually would expect it (the sentence structures at times) to be constructed. so the poem is a bit of a challenge to understand and to read [for some people]. but, except for reference to tall poppy syndrome, which i was not familiar with (maybe you added a Poet's Notes?) , i liked the poem and think i'll hold it in a list for November's showcase. Thanks. bri :) [i'll leave this also as a poem comment.] a wild guess is that there will be no 2994 for humans! to MyPoemList