Romanzoffiana(that old Syagrus)

  Pale long neck
rising above the tropical thicket
Downward curved leaves claw like
Inward clinging

narrow spine
mottled trunk
moss encrusting
wind stained orchids

hanging on in the moist breeze

layers of lichen gobbling up the shaded lower trunk
Brown red dead leaves holding on
as if hell was the forest floor

Narrow tall heads out of the canopy
peeping out to the world
Partially sheltered by the cumbersome
all encompassing ficus