Jamie McKendrick - Sky Nails That first day, to break me in, my hardened comrades sent me scampering like a marmoset from the topmost parapet to the foreman's hut for a bag of sky nails. The foreman wondered which precise shade of blue I had in mind. It's still sky nails I need today with their faint threads and unbreakable heads that will nail anything to nothing and make it stay. There are a few interpretations of Sky Nails that seem plausible. For me, it's the last three lines that really tell me what it is I find so compelling about it...nailing "anything to nothing and mak[ing] it stay" for me means that the sky nails the protagonist has fetched from the mysterious "foreman" (a deity of some kind?) are the tools needed to keep themselves together; they represent the psychological means for a desperately struggling person (perhaps, particularly, someone who has some sort of mental illness) to hold on. 1. K...