All Comments on 'A Thought On Lust'

Nao percebo entendo. Not sure whether that is right, more accurately I am not even connecting with this poem to the point of perceiving an/any image. I hope that others will take their comments further than expressing admiration(or not) and say what their experience of this poem is to them. I find most of Lauren's work very difficult which is very frustrating because she is such an intelligent and observant person.But I have read this 5 times and ??

Thoughts on Lust ~ who hasn't had a few.

Okay Lauren, thought I was doing pretty good there; then you slipped in all those clowns. Reading this, it's like a painting becoming more abstract the more you look at it. For me, it was all those clowns - so, what's with the clowns?

The words are (mostly) in the implied narrator’s mind.

The situation is: lovers doing loving (maybe first 'tonguing').

The tongue is both the literal and the metaphorical tool for the language and the speech. It is also the erotic part we extend to our partner in our erotic interludes, ok – lust.

The act of loving /lusting with the tongue (I know it does not sound poetic) narrows the whole universe at that moment –through that act and onto the partner’s skin. It may also connote with the sequencing where lovers first use language, then every thing seems to narrow down (not a normative statement) to that act of lust.

Finally, clowns connote to me generally with humor, but also more literally with laughter and even feeling ticklish. Note – this is a directive to a moving and crawling partner, as she tries to stabilize her poor victim of lust…