title: Keelson
text: # Keelson
  
  The keelson or kelson is a reinforcing structural member on top of the keel in the hull of a wooden vessel.
  
  In part V of “Song of Myself”, American poet Walt Whitman uses the phrase: “And that a kelson of the creation is love;” to imply that love is akin to a keelson, or backbone, that supports humanity.
  
  