Published today at Fevers of the Mind. Many thanks to editor David!
https://feversofthemind.com/category/elizabeth-cusack/
And I will drown forever where so many have gone
— Jeff Buckley
Never Knew Why
She told him on the telephone
goodbye, she would be walking out
with her main man, and he never knew why
her gowns were found wrapped there
like dressings of morphine in the swirling
undertow beneath the swilling reeds
soaking in the sad refrains and bittersweet
melodies of the sound of the Mississippi
— Elizabeth Cusack
Poetry on the Rocks for Lonely Hearts 
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