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      June 8, 2012What She Did Not DoPam Herbet Barger

      But for a parking space
      she would have gone to watch the monks,
      their stillness in the midst of mandala-making
      an antidote to the double espresso
      quickening her blood—
      espresso as response
      to frigid late-October air,
      friends, tallgrass, song sparrows,
      even lying right down on the
      skin of the turning planet.
      She did not mourn lack of serendipity.
      Parking space, no parking space.
      Monks, no monks.
      Is one outcome better?
      It’s not that she set out
      to do any one thing.
      What she did not do, however,
      cannot be called
      nothing.

      from #36 - Winter 2011

      Pam Herbert Barger

      “A seventh-grade teacher’s talk on Eastern thought stirred my initial interest in Buddhism, and by my early twenties I was fairly certain that enlightenment was just around the corner. Now in my final trimester of life, I find quiet fulfillment in many Ways—writing, music, gardening—and mostly that’s good enough for me.”

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