Think, two things on their own and both at once. - Simon Armitage

Boy with the name and face I don't remember,
you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you.

In a life, most of us turn no more than 45 degrees. Not much
compared to those who turn full-circle in the slighest breeze
or those who totally uncoil, but enough in the end
to tell a bag of diamonds from a sack of coal.

We walk to the ward from the badly parked car
with your grandma taking four short steps to our two.
We have brought her here to die and we know it.