Sympathy Cards
by Lucia Owen
After your death and after all the cards, after they all said, every last one, in so many words, that there were no words, after I thought there weren’t, I found them in the car with the windows closed at the top of my lungs.
‘Sympathy Cards’ won first place in our 2025 Spring Short Competition.
Lucia Owen moved to western Maine over fifty years ago to teach high school English. Until his recent death she was the caregiver for her husband of almost forty-eight years.
In her eighth decade she finds that poetry helps her keep on keeping on.