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Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence by T. C. Mills

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From: Indiana Review
Date: 20070701
Author:Mills, Tyler Caroline

New Year's Eve in Central Park: the flat lake an apricot

before Lucky Cheng's where our transvestite waitress

brings a crown of balloons pinched and twisted

like circus dogs. How quiet we get when they dance,

these new women laying their hands down their flat thighs

and rose feathers trailing from silver heels. Real, real:

the age of innocence begins in an opera box

and ends with a dark-haired woman's apartment

window. Or the age of innocence begins with my cousin

holding a green razor between her legs

in my bedroom after not eating the Easter cake

we made with egg whites and almonds,

my hair ...

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