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Song to Make Negative Astral Entities Fall Asleep . by Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 13 May 2017; published on 17 May 2017

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • Song to Make Negative Astral Entities Fall Asleep – High Voice, by Alice B. Clagett, Soundtrack and Words
    • Song to Make Negative Astral Entities Fall Asleep – Low Voice, by Alice B. Clagett, Soundtrack and Words
    • Photos by Alice
  • MORE INFORMATION

Dear Ones,

Here is a new rendition of a song I have sung before. There is an edited Summary after the video …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I am of the Stars.

I thought I would repeat a song for you, that I have given to you before. I have tried it on some other sorts of situations that I thought you might like to know about. It works for all kinds of astral beings that may appear to be a little bit scary  …

  • It works for Satan in all his forms;
  • It works for all the negative astral beings;
  • It works for subtle sorcerers (mantriks) and negative enchanters;
  • and drukpas (dugpas), red hats, shammars, and ‘brothers of the shadow’ who have agreed to work with earth-bound elementaries in hopes of mastering other men; these allied sorcerers, as they become older, fall victim to those entities that once served to them;
  • the astral elementaries themselves;
  • and people who are disembodied who were black magickers;
  • It works for thuggee cult members who have passed on, are disembodied and have not yet found human form (and are not likely to under the current situation); and
  • It works for the beings that hover over hybrids and antisocial personalities, which are very bad sorts of astral beings. And so it gives those people a rest from the constant torment of that kind of association.
  • It also works on the jinn (aka the djinn, the genies), and I expect also on the afrit that inhabit the desert regions of Earth (although I have never met one).

It is a very simple song that was taught me by a young person less than three years of age, who was very much in touch with God, and with the spirit realm. It goes like this …

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Song to Make Negative Astral Entities Fall Asleep – High Voice
by Alice B. Clagett
Soundtrack and Words
13 May 2017

 

May the air fall asleep! (x4, in a higher range)

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Like that. You can also sing it in a lower tone, like this, if your voice is lower …

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Song to Make Negative Astral Entities Fall Asleep – Low Voice
by Alice B. Clagett
Soundtrack and Words
13 May 2017

 

May the air fall asleep! (x4, in a lower range)

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You see? Or even lower; if you had a very low voice, you could start if very low as well.

It is important to keep the chest relaxed while you are singing it; to feel that the angels are all around you, and that the song that you are singing is like the song a young child would sing to his baby sister lying in the crib … a very sweet an innocent song.

Photos by Alice

Image: “Jacaranda Blossoms 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 13 May 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Jacaranda Blossoms 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 13 May 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Jacaranda Blossoms 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 13 May 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Jacaranda Blossoms 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 13 May 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Jacaranda Blossoms 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 13 May 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Jacaranda Blossoms 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 13 May 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

See also … Link: “Compendium: Songs to Make the Air Fall Asleep,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 14 July 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-dC3 ..

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MORE INFORMATION

Link: “Alice’s Perilous Tales: Story of the Obsessed Shaman and Thoughts on Predominantly Masculine Astral Skits,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 8 February 2016; published on 9 May 2016, revised on 11 October 2018 … http://wp.me/p2Rkym-4VJ .. 

Link: “Soul Devolution,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 14 March 2016 … http://wp.me/p2Rkym-4ZK ..

Link: “Brothers of the Shadow,” by Helena P. Blavatsky … https://theosophy.wiki/en/Brothers_of_the_Shadow ..

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–from Link: “Song to Make Negative Astral Entities Fall Asleep,” by Alice B. Clagett,filmed on 13 May 2017; published on 17 May 2017 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-7d4 ..

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Alice B. Clagett


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Blessing to Optimize Timelines and Dimensions! . by the Hathors through Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 12 May 2017; published on 13 May 2017

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • Activation of Light to Optimize Timelines and Dimensions, by the Hathors through Alice B. Clagett, Soundtrack and Words
    • Photos by Alice

Dear Ones,

Here is a recording of the activation of Light to optimize timelines and dimensions, gifted by the Hathors through Alice …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Activation of Light to Optimize Timelines and Dimensions
by the Hathors through Alice B. Clagett
Soundtrack and Words
12 May 2017

 

Spirit to Team!
Optimize timelines and dimensions!
For the All, through Free Will!   (x3)

Photos by Alice

Image: “Sun and Trees,” by Alice B. Clagett, 12 May 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Sun and Trees,” by Alice B. Clagett, 12 May 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0

Alice B. Clagett


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Song to Soothe a Feeling of Cataleptic Withdrawal . by Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 2 May 2017; published on 3 May 2017

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • Soundtrack and Lyrics
  • MORE INFORMATION
    • Nous
    • Knot
    • Maldek

Dear Ones,

Here is a song to soothe a feeling of cataleptic withdrawal. I wrote it for a person in an astral story I heard yesterday …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

I have a simple song to sing for people who have cataleptic episodes, which is to say, strategic retreats from the world we know as the real world, back towards the heaven worlds and the astral realm. And the song goes like this …

Soundtrack and Lyrics

 

Nous noose,
Knot not!
Come and untie that silly old knot,
And come back down from heaven!   (x3)

That is the song, and the meaning of it is: Nous is the spirit of the human. Noose is the knotted cord or rope that ties the spirit off from the physical form … That is what happens when a person experiences too great a shock, and goes into catalepsy.

So the first two words: nous, meaning ‘spirit’, and noose, cutting the spirit off so that it can’t flow down into the physical body. Then in the next line:

Knot, meaning the knot on the noose; that which ties the noose up, and prevents it from opening up. The second word in the second line is not, and it means: Let there not be a knot!

Then when the last two lines are sung, they call nous, the spirit, back down into the physical form.

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

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MORE INFORMATION

Nous: ‘Nous’ means ‘common sense’ or ‘mind’ (a faculty of the Soul). If there is a ‘noose’ on the ‘nous’, then the spirit of Soul is closed off from expression through the human form to which it is assigned.

Knot: The word ‘knot’ or ‘knot of fear’ is used in “The Law of One: The Ra Material” to describe the situation for the Maldekians after their planet was destroyed …

Link: “The ‘Law of One’ Search Results for ‘Maldek’,” in “The Law of One: The Ra Material” … https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?q=Maldek … Search the word: knot

Maldek: After the planet Maldek in our Solar System exploded, it became what we now know as the Asteroid Belt …

Link: “Maldek,” in Ascension Glossary … https://ascensionglossary.com/index.php/Maldek ..

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–from Link: “Song to Soothe a Feeling of Cataleptic Withdrawal,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 2 May 2017; published on 3 May 2017 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-7aM ..

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Alice B. Clagett


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On Soulless Men: Parable of the Wild Cat as House Pet . by Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 9 April 2017

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • Are There People with No Souls?
    • Parable of the Wild Cat as House Pet
    • On the Danger of Losing Our Own Soul Through Association with Soulless People

63  “I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
64 “The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.” –Psalm 119: 63-64 (KJV, public domain)

Dear Ones,

Here is a video about the Soulless men that walk among us, and whom we take as human. After the video is a Summary …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Dear Ones,

I have been looking, lately, into the reason for the existence of Soulless people. I will be coming out with that research soon … I have a little more research to do amongst the occult literature that I found. In the meantime, I would like to say a parable about it …

Are There People with No Souls?

There are people, in the world today, who have human form, but no Souls, for a variety of reasons. Most people in the world are confined, in their notions of humankind, to the human form. So if they see a human form, they think they’re seeing a human being.

But human beings are not just human form … they are not just physical form. We are many different forms, all combined, and condensed into what we see as the physical reality. And beyond all that … encircling all that, and encompassing it … is the eternal Soul, in the normal human being.

So you see me, and I see you, and what we see is just one tiny portion of what we really are. But in the case of a person who has lost his or her Soul, then what you see is almost all that there is. You will probably see the physical form, and with that, maybe, the damaged emotional body (or astral form).

Parable of the Wild Cat as House Pet

So here is the thing: What would it be like to be in alliance with a person who has no Soul … what they call a ‘Dark Soul’, a ‘Black Soul’? Imagine that you live in a house, and you never leave it. In that house, you have taken as a pet, or as a friend, a cat that was raised in the wild. And that cat, that was raised in the wild, does not recognize you as family. The only thing it knows is that you are potential prey … large, maybe, but potential prey.

So you have to figure out a way, without leaving your home, to get along, all the time, with this wild cat, and avoid having it injure your physical form or kill you.

Imagine that you only live in one room in the house, and you have no barriers, and that cat is always there, ready to tear into you. How are you going to train it? How are you going to train that physical form of the wild cat, and tame its instincts so that it doesn’t injure you?

On the Danger of Losing Our Own Soul Through Association with Soulless People

That is what happens to us when we align with a group that is headed by a person with no Soul. In order to escape and be safe, we have to dis-align ourselves from that group. We have to step out of that group, and step into only our own magnetic field. There we can be safe.

But as long as we have those astral bonds, especially between our gut brain and that of a person who has no Soul, our own Soul is always in danger. We are always in danger of losing our own Soul.

You know how the popular saying goes, about being careful about the companions you keep? This is an extreme instance of that. What the Bible, for instance, is talking about … when it talks about bad companions, it’s just talking about bad habits, such as debauchery. But what it means when your companion, and especially when the person you look up to in your group is a Soulless man, or a Soulless woman, is that you yourself are in danger of losing your own eternal Soul.

As the Bible says [to paraphrase], what does it avail us if our Soul is lost? What do we gain? What do we have from all these priceless incarnations?

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

See also … Link: “Compendium: Ensoulment, Soullessness, and Soul Evolution,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 28 August 2018; revised on 4 October 2018 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-a4p ..

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–from Link: “On Soulless Men: Parable of the Wild Cat as House Pet,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 9 April 2017 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-78F ..

Alice B. Clagett


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Song: Wonderful One . by Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 9 March 2017; published on 22 March 2017

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • Soundtrack and Lyrics

Dear Ones,

This is a beautiful little song. I think it may have been composed by someone else, who used to sing it as a young child …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Soundtrack and Lyrics

 

I am the wonderful one!
I am the wonderful one!
I am the one!
I am the one!
I am the one!

[After the song there is a videoclip of butterfly perched on flower.]

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–from Link: “Song: Wonderful One,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 9 March 2017; published on 22 March 2017 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-74x ..

Alice B. Clagett


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Pioneer Ranch Ghost Stories: A Series . channeled by Alice B. Clagett *

Filmed on 7 August 2019; published on 11 September 2019

  • INTRODUCTION
    • Thoughts on Flies, Death, and Subconscious Symbolism
  • PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 1, Channeled by Alice B. Clagett, with the Music of Chris Zabriskie
    • VIDEO BY ALICE
    • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
  • PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 2, Channeled by Alice B. Clagett
    • VIDEO BY ALICE
    • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
  • PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 3, Channeled by Alice B. Clagett
    • VIDEO BY ALICE
    • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
  • PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 4, Channeled by Alice B. Clagett
    • VIDEO BY ALICE
    • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
  • PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 5 – A BLESSING, Channeled by Alice B. Clagett, with the Music of Chris Zabriskie
    • VIDEO BY ALICE
    • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

Here are pioneer ghost stories I channeled on 7 August 2019. I think they are imaginary; however, they do go to show that ghosts may ‘haunt’ a place because of some awful experience they may have had while living.

It is almost as if the ghosts are hoping for forgiveness, or maybe hoping for the grace to find peaceful rest in the afterlife, even though things might have gone terribly wrong in their earthly life (as seems to have been the case in these stories).

Thoughts on Flies, Death, and Subconscious Symbolism

I had a further thought about the channelings that day: I wondered if, by chance, the flies buzzing around in that forest, and bothering me, might have somehow brought in sad ghost stories. Could it be that flies might be thought by the subconscious mind to buzz round carcasses, and so might symbolize death in a subconscious context. It that were so, then that might explain these very sad channelings …

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PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 1
Channeled, imaged, and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, CC  BY-SA 4.0
Music: “Prelude No. 21,” from the album “Preludes” by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0

An edited Summary follows the video.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

When I first started down this way [shows deserted asphalt road through woods] and before I had quite gotten to the woods, on the astral plane I heard some young children say: Better not come down this way!

I said: Why is that?

And they said: ‘Cause we are up to no good.

I said: How old are you?

One young boy said: Five.

Then I heard a man’s voice say: You kids come away from there. Leave that person alone. 

When I got down there, I did not see any children. I guess maybe they were ghosts.

Images from the video are here … Link: Santa Monica Mountains 1, photos by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 7 August 2019; published on 10 October 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-erm ..

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PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 2
Channeled and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, CC BY-SA 4.0

An edited Summary follows the video.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

I was over here near the water containers that are right there [shows water containers] and I came across these trees that were by the road, and encircled by an old-fashioned kind of wire fence [shows trees and wire fence] … That kind of fence used to be manufactured before my time, in fact.

Since I am always contacting the ghosts of the early pioneers and settlers out here, I asked why this space was enclosed. A man’s voice said that his wife was buried there.

I asked him if he is passed on too, and he said he was also passed on; they were both passed on now. He put that wire there to protect his wife’s grave.

I asked him why there was no tombstone there. He said the neighbor boys carried it off.

Then up this way (but you cannot see it) … up behind this fence over here [shows fence that is up the hill a little ways] there is a reservoir. I was standing on just the other side of that reservoir, between the new water tanks [shows water tanks] … There are some old water tanks behind them that are not hooked up [shows old water tanks].

Then there was a fireplace [shows fireplace]. And next to that was this water reservoir [shows reservoir].

While I was standing between the fireplace and the reservoir I heard that same man’s voice on the astral plane. He said: Technically, you are on private property now. 

When I came down this way [shows wire fence around trees], I was chatting with him about his wife’s grave. He says when he was 49 years of age his wife passed away. I am very sorry to hear that. His wife, he said on the astral plane, was 45.

I asked him about the private land … why it was technically private land. He said that is because he rented the land from somebody else. And just because he did not do that ‘revenooer’ thing did not mean that it was not his land for as long as he used it. Now you know!

I was speaking with the gentleman in question, and asking him why it was those neighbor boys would steal that tombstone. He mentioned something about a range war going on. But for the life of him, he said on the astral plane, he could not figure why they had stolen that tombstone.

I said: Well, what did they do with it?

He said: They knocked it on a rock and broke it up, but he somehow or other got even with them. 

He said that he never got over the death of his wife. He is not too sure when it was that he passed on.

Then I said: How did your wife die? What did she die of? Was it bad water? Was it tuberculosis?

And she came in. She said: We got into a fight, and I knocked him on the floor. And he got up and konked me out.

I guess that is how it must have happened. It must have been not on purpose … just in the heat of anger, I think. Too bad, huh? Too bad.

[The photos with this video are not displayed in a separate link.]

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PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 3
Channeled and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, CC BY-SA 4.0

An edited Summary follows the video.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Well, this is turning out to be kind of an intriguing story. I was talking to the ghost of a pioneer man just now. He said he did not want anybody to find out about how his wife passed on. And I said: Well, if you don’t want me to tell anybody I won’t.

He said: I’d rather you didn’t; my children might find out.

So I asked around; I said: Are his children still alive, or are they dead?

Off in the distance, a woman’s voice said: His children are all dead. 

So I asked him; I said: How many children did y’all have?

He said: We had five children.

And I said: My goodness! Five children!

So I asked around; I said: Are there any children of his children still alive?

Off in the distance, I heard the woman’s voice say: No, there are no kin of his alive today. 

The man turned to his guardian angel (which is always a good thing) and he said: I wonder why there are no kin of mine alive.

The guardian angel said: When you do that ‘rotterdammer’ thing, it’s always hard on the kin. [Because of the use of the malware word ‘rotterdammer’, which I associate with a person I met some years ago, I feel this astral comment may be a pass through or flow in from a subsequent astral source.]

Well I thought about it, and I wondered if it is all right to tell that story. I guess, since his kin have passed on, and since I really do not know his name … or even whether these ghost lived where I was walking or maybe elsewhere … it might be ok.

It also might help out other families to avoid domestic violence for the sake of their children and their children’s children. Domestic violence seems to cast a grey shadow upon the family line. Best to find a way to mediate difficulties, and to work things out in a constructive way.

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PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 4
Channeled and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, CC BY-SA 4.0

An edited Summary follows the video.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

I was over here in this little clearing under a tree [shows clearing] where I have been before; where I spoke with the faeries before … sitting on the same stump I sat on before … and I heard the ghost of the pioneer man say he just found out now that when his children were 10 years old he killed them with the hatchet.

And I said: Well, why’d you do that?

He said: They didn’t work that hard anyway. 

I said: But they could have gone away then, and worked out on their own. 

And he said: That’s just what I did. 

So I said: They couldn’t have all been 10 years of age at the same time; they must have been 10 years of age one by one. Did you wait till they were 10?

I did not hear him say anything about that. He just went away …

Well I hung out with this for a minute or two because, to tell the truth, I was a little upset about it. I heard his wife say: No, he did not kill all the children like that. Only one met his death like that.

That cheered me up a little; that would be four children still alive …

I just talked to the woman a little more … it might have been a different woman. She said: We both came from the same family. Our father did not do that kind of thing. But there were a crop failure, and that’s why that happened. [long pause while listening, on the astral plane] …

Then she said: He got really upset about the crop failure, took a hatchet to the fifth one, and that was that. 

Well I hope this is the last of that story … I heard the lady’s voice say: The sheriff said he went out of his mind; that cellophane thought was on his mind. We went round and round on that one.

[Cellophane was invented in 1908; so this astral comment may be a pass through or flow in from a subsequent astral source.]  ccc

I heard the son who passed on say right now in a young person voice: I were going through puberty; that were all that were going on. My mom tried to tell me to tone it down. 

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PIONEER RANCH GHOST STORY 5 – A BLESSING
Channeled, imaged and compiled by Alice B. Clagett, CC BY-SA 4.0
Music: “Prelude No. 2” from the album “Preludes” by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0

An edited Summary follows the video.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

[This video show sunlight in the forest, along with some nature photos. The channelings that day were such sad stories that I felt it might be best to add a musical collaboration as the final video.]

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

The photos from this last video are here … Link: “Santa Monica Mountains 2,” photos by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 7 August 2019; published on 11 September 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-eaY ..

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–from Link: “Pioneer Ranch Ghost Stories: A Series,” channeled by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 7 August 2019; published on 11 September 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-eaU ..

Alice B. Clagett


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Ice . a poem by Alice Clagett

Written on 19 September 2019; published on 21 September 2019
Added poem to: Tiny Anthologies: Wild West Poems

  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • Ice, a Poem by Alice B. Clagett, Soundtrack and Words

Dear Ones,

Here is a new poem for you …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

This is a poem called “Ice” …

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ICE
A Poem by Alice B. Clagett
Soundtrack and Words
19 September 2019

This is a fictional, narrative poem.

 

I said, I’m a charity trust trustee
Ought I stay on the board or leave it?

He said, Why live with clutter?

Out of the corner of my eye
I looked round at his office

No papers, no books, no cabinets
Just a laptop and a printer

Ok, I said. I agree

As he handed me the paper to sign
his eyes cut like a razor

.   .  .

He said, Here are your POA forms
One is for power over health
the other for just about everything else

If you want
my wife and I
can provide that service for you

His eyes looked clear, like river ice
early on, in the winter

Ok, I said. I will sign them

.   .  .

His eyes turned blue like the midday sky
as he handed me the papers

Here’s a form, he said,
that I always advise
it’s important for your children

After 3 days they pull the plug
it saves them from commotion

I said, I don’t like that form at all!
Look at me – I’m the picture of perfect health
and then, I have no children

His eyes glinted like sun on snow
He said, My advice is to sign it.

.   .  .

He opened the door to show me out
Then stopped for half a second

My wife, he said, does health massage

I said, May I have her number?

.   .  .
.   .  .

She said, I can’t see you at my job
They’re fixing the floor in my office.
I’ll do the massage at our home instead

Her voice was like raspberry jam on toast
Why did that concern me?

What day? I asked
with a frog in my throat

She said, I’ll get back to you

Two weeks later, I found the door
of the place where she and her husband lived

Here, she said, is my new massage table

Her hand touched the cloth
in the way that a priest
offers the Sunday Eucharist

.   .  .

I don’t disrobe for massage, I said
I hope you can work around that

Her lips froze
Her eyes assessed
Her hip touched the edge of the table gently

Would that be ok? I asked

Ok, she said. Lie down here.

.   .  .

This is a new technique, she said
You’ll be the first to try it
and she explained cerebrally
the ins and outs of the method

Then out of the blue, it seemed to me,
she said, Do you know Catherine?
I have known her for years, she said
and I really like her

My eyes froze, then relaxed. O yeah.
It’s Catherine that’s working back in town
next door to this young lady

A hunch formed in the back of my mind
Then disappeared
before I could see
more than a claw
or the look on the face of it

.   .  .

A man in a hat
that concealed his face
walked in from the yard

As he cleared the lintel I saw
the door was still half open

His shadow lay
like a long black line
on the floor at the foot of the table

Who’s that? I asked

O, she said,
He’s just a gawker from next door
You don’t mind, do you?

I said, Yes I do!

The stranger stopped inching towards us

He turned round in the cool dim room
felt for the door with his left hand
and stumbled into the sunlight

.   .  .

My blood turned hot.
My hands got cold
My heart got a speeding ticket

I sat up.

My gosh, I have to go!
Here, let me pay you

. . . . .

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

NOTE: POA means ‘power of attorney’

Here is background information … Link: “Alice’s Perilous Tales: Murder in the Wild West,” a story by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 8 August 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-jrE ..

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–from Link: “Ice,” a Poem by Alice B. Clagett, written on 19 September 2019; published on 21 September 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-eio ..

Alice B. Clagett


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