Off Face

It’s the thought that because circumstances, factors, dynamics change in society, generations are to some degrees separated by limited facial expressions that are inaccessible to other generations.

A crying man’s face, a child’s face after a day’s wage, a woman’s relief

Some contortions, muscle tweaks, strains and covers

Only learned in conjunction, revealed holism

Picked and set apart into a new world where its existence perhaps is ancestral or existential but not integral in the moment of revelation

And thus means something apart from its origin

And away from even the possibility of being seen, or at least communicated

I remember faces from youth, faces of giants, that haven’t been around for a long time