This is simply a portrait of Charlie, a man I hardly knew except for his kindness and bravery in the face of an early death. There really was a gala, a sendoff. The man was loved.

https://www.thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Autumn-2024/270/

"Elegy for Charlie" by Alice Friman

"Eyeteeth" by Laura Marris

"Loaner" by Cameron McGill

"Liquefying" by Chloe Yelena Miller

"For My Brother: A Heroic Crown" by Dan O'Brien

"Vox Humana with Fire" by Donald Platt

"Proverbial" by Lynne Jensen Lampe

"Self-Portrait as Philosophy" by Jane Yeh

"Self-Portrait as Proximity" by Jane Yeh

"First Galaxy (1990)" by Sara Henning

"Map of the Moon (2006)" by Sara Henning

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"Elegy for Charlie" by Alice Friman

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