Interpretations

[Lizzie]

This is one of your best for me, Wjames. I'm drawn into the scene.

I pretended not to look -- insight into the speaker's very human experience right off the bat. Nice.
as she carved her back -- carved goes well with statue, but it just doesn't set right image wise -- how does one carve their own back? Mold, postured, etc.?
into a statue, and cracked it.

We were the only ones -- RiverNotch is right about the eros in the poem -- nothing sexier than a library.
in the library, and I was reading
her vertebrae like a poem -- reading her body like a poem is a beautiful sentiment. It's hard to do 'lusting after the beautiful woman' poetry well, and you're succeeding.
I couldn’t understand. -- I love this. Nice twist at the end from appreciation to being captivated by the mysterious.

Love it! Good work.