First Known When Lost: "The Living Branches Won't Let It Fall": Norman MacCaig And Patrick MacDonogh

First Known When Lost: "The Living Branches Won't Let It Fall": Norman MacCaig And Patrick MacDonogh
Excerpt:
In Memoriam

On that stormy night
a top branch broke off
on the biggest tree in my garden.

It's still up there.  Though its leaves
are withered black among the green
the living branches
won't let it fall.