Leddy Hammock
from I’d Know You Anywhere” by Nancy Tillman
If one day we’re walking and talking, just us, and you looked different,
“I might be surprised, but just for a while. I’d know it was you by your magical smile.”
Even if you had been away for a long time and didn’t look at all like yourself, “I’d say,
‘My, my . . . that is quite a disguise!’ But I’d know it was you by the gleam in your eyes.”
“There are things about you quite unlike any other . . .
Things always known by your father or mother.
So, if you decide to be different one day, no worries . . . I’d know you anyway.”
“Yes, without question I’d know it was you.” “I know you by heart.”
Because, child of God, “I’d know you anywhere.”