Faces fall off

We were sitting in the car
and I was thinking about his
muscles.
Not arm or jaw, but the muscles
above his bones and
underneath
his skin,
the muscles that are out of reach.

And as I was thinking
his face began to fall off,
and the muscles underneath
that speak in a code I try so hard
to understand
were shown,
serendipitously,

and I felt better we were going there together.