I have a certain love for compact, yet meaningful poems. I believe the less words you use to convey your message, the more powerful those words have to be. Like cutting off the excess.
At any rate, I absolutely love each and every word in this and the image they conjure.
I like where this goes. The spine thing. Sometimes if you haven't faith you haven't spine either. I wonder if that's what happened to Christopher Columbus? It took a lot of nerve/spine to sail off towards the edge of the world.