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Kathleen Powers-Vermaelen pursues an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook Southampton. Her work has been published in Proteus, Beginnings, MotherVerse, The East Hampton Star and The Southampton Review. She lives with her husband and two sons in Bayport, New York.
Catch Her
On a last blank page
in a young adult library book
written by Salinger,
I found a perfect kiss,
a glossy lipstick imprint
of coral-toned approval
more surprising than
stark pink highlighting
on page one fifty,
and underlined words
sexual intercourse
on page forty nine
and blue ballpoint ink
beneath poignant passage
on page seven,
A mark she'd left
to inform everyone
she now understood
and would continue on,
having already made peace
with inevitability.