Correctly you so take, Doug. Thinking, there should be a neat noun for hat-wearer.
Bill
> On 30 Oct 2014, at 5:49 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> Perhaps you are right, Pat. If a hyphen is good enough for silver-bearded, it might be good also for hat-wearer.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> -----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).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> that we are only
> as we find out we are
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> Charles Olson
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