m m doctrine

 

innocence

assumed for liquid blue eyes

sweet vulnerability of marilyn

monroe doctrine declaring ‘hands off’

and ‘we won’t protest what you do

to others in your territory’

seems neither gullibility

nor guiltlessness

only complicity in uneasy piece

not peace

                                   

MaryJane Nordgren

Author of the Nandria Series, MaryJane is a retired family practice physician who grew up in the Midwest but now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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