Well, hat wearer is a bit awkward, Bill.
I take it that it’s the hat wearing you shared?
Doug
On Oct 29, 2014, at 4:35 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Perhaps you are right, Pat. If a hyphen is good enough for silver-bearded, it might be good also for hat-wearer.
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> Bill
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>> On 29 Oct 2014, at 9:16 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> B Silly me read 'silver-bearded hat' which sounded challenging cheers P
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>> Sent: 28 October 2014 20:58
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Walking into myself
>>
>> Walking into myself
>>
>> Stepping out on the street this morning,
>> came upon a silver-bearded hat wearer
>>
>> coming towards me evenly like I was walking
>> into an outside mirror. Before we thwacked
>>
>> into each other, he stopped. Gary, he said,
>> extending his arm. Bill. And we turned
>>
>> together, me walking his way, out of the mirror.
>> He had seventeen years on me it turned out
>>
>> but our strides pretty near matched. How long?
>> Nearly ten years now I said. Forty myself,
>>
>> he countered. Charlber Lane. Just like
>> the steady ups and downs on Goldmans Road.
>>
>> Parting on the return leg where my
>> driveway shears off, Gary arced on
>>
>> back into the road mirror and
>> marched out of vision.
>>
>> bw
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Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
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