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Colleen Alles

Colleen AllesColleen Alles is a native Michigander and award-winning writer. The author of three novels and two poetry collections, she is also a fiction editor with Barren Magazine and an MFA candidate at Spalding University.

You can find her online at www.colleenalles.com.

Colleen Allesmicrochap is available below. Download the PDF by clicking the title.


  Origami Microchap with Selected Poems
Words Heard at the Funeral  

 

 

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Colleen Alles CVR Words Funeral 2026

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little heart
little face
little voice
you have everything you need
at only seven pounds

 

daughter’s birth—
watching legally mandated
shaken baby videos
how my tears flowed!
how superior I thought I was!

 

 

lithe willow
tossed by the wind
the challenges faced
by today’s high school girls
…my 4-year-old daughter

 

my daughter
sleeping in my arms
again
the last time
wasn’t the last time

Colleen Alles © 2026