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:
>
> 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
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> 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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