An Other Voice by Bob MacKenzie Here, Jacob, here is your ladder: Here are the steps of soft thighs, Here the balustrade of bodies: Here is your ladder to heaven - In the flesh, so to speak - here. Here is your ladder to heaven, Finished in hyper-renaissance flesh Tones that bespeak heaven, Jacob - Jacob! Slide down the bannister, Come up again, Slip to the ball at the bottom, Come up again - Remember ladders, Jacob? Ladders: Why make such elaborate erections If not to climb, if not to climb? Come up to heaven, Jacob. |