HAT SHADOW IS TIME OF PAST & NOW

When the bash of hat becomes part of your identity, instantly recognisable by many.

As the body continually ages recognition of the trademark core remains the same.

The trademark brand, tilt and style of become as part of you, as your face or name.

Every bushie in rural towns have on their head their individual bash recognisable DNA.

If left hehind in some strange place, many would know how to match the hat with a face.

The front, the back, the side view too, 'Graeme Cox' artist impression to complete the image true.

The hat is part identity, part tool kit and part past memory stick.

The faded ear tag reads "Nullabore Muster" 2014 the last social function we shared with Edward.

On the Nullabore plain at Rawlinna Station in Western Australia Billy started his independent life.

The pin that started life holding kids nappies, transformed to vital surgical tool for burr extraction. 

The big holes in the side of the hat were a vain attempt to reduce the balding from the gene pool.

The copper wire,a versatile requirement mostly now used for unclogging garden drippers.

A spare stock whip cracker, mostly just a reminder of  my working past of yesteryear.

A TOOL KIT ON MY HEAD

Seen at first glance, it is just a hat.

Taken apart, is far more than that.

A shelter from sun off my baldy head.

Keeps rain off glasses like a small shed.

Has holes in the side to create more air.

Lest heat and sweat take out more hair.

Complete with essential everyday tool kit.

Nappy pin burr remover, used quite a bit.

Spare whip cracker, copper wire drip free.

Nullabore Muster 2014 token of Billy & Me.

Hat bash and the brand are part of my DNA.

There aint any other that looks the same way.