The rule for my oulipo poem is that I’m not allowed to use any of the letters featured in the word oulipo (o,u,l,i or p)

The trees ache when she enters

Maybe they remember her

Maybe she remembers them

The sky hasn’t remembered at all

She can see the way that the red beam

Fades darker than the regrettable days

At her nest she can escape

Escape and dream that her tree may stay

That she can fly away

She senses the treachery as she prays

She changes herself and pleads

That a day far away from here a regrettable man

Can enter the trees

Maybe they remember her

Maybe

She begs that when the man sees her feathers

All nestled at the nest peak

He place them at arms

Escape by craft

And fly away