dvincent3 Oct 2006
I see what you were after and you're close. The firt line starts it off great. I remember a poem by Leanord Cohen in which there was a line describing a positive sensation as "...singing in the wires of my spine". This is something like you're after with the skeins, but in your case in a negetive way.
Dig for some other word/phrase choices on this. "crawling" under the skin? "Inching" Not sure.
poem is a good example of how important every singel word is.