The Sallman Head -- edit 3

[Todd]

Hi Lizzie, 

Let me give you a few comments on this latest version.

Revision 3

Jesus seems photo-shopped --From what I can tell photoshopped is one word without the hyphen.
to look brighter, lighter—

so light, in fact, he floats.--something you might try here. Maybe a hard return after this line to make the line float in the white space.
It only shows one side--If you chose to do that I would join this line to the two lines below. I think your repetition of side below is bothering me a bit now. How about: "It only shows his profile"

and that makes me wonder
if he hides his ugly side.

He's framed as a role model:
chiseled jaw, cheekbones rising up

to heaven, candlelit eyes
—Mel Gibson blue—

a pillowy gaze without desire
and looking up        to his dad.

I wonder if this face could engage
or enrage empires—

its heroin stare doesn't inspire.
Maybe people look to him to see the light

show—the radiant show, the halo show, --I wonder if show and its repetitions are really helping. This is a 4 on a scale of 1-10 issue for me so it's a minor thing. What if you simply cut show in each instance?
the skin show—fair faced

and gleaming in his Hampton Whites,
in a time long before bleach.

Those are my only comments on the revision.

Best,

Todd