well, actually....

i was rushing out the door this morning when i posted above and didn't really say hat I intended. I don't read the title so much as tongue-in-cheek or sardonic (although there's a little bit of that, to me, in it) but more I think she was being a bit subversive - about how subversive "invitations" can be ... Once I read it through a Buddhist lens, I would say that she titled it "Invitation" to call attention to how it really could as easily be called "Seduction" or "Temptation" ... that in every invitation that beckons us to consider what could be as opposed to what is, there lies a serious potential derailing (and i don't think she was actually being very 'tongue in cheek' about it - Maybe she was but that's not really how I read her tone). So just to clarify ... Now back to work ... :-) with, alas, no time really to explore all the other poems of hers I see you have posted in the interim ... not for a couple of days anyway ...

z