National Poetry Month : Hugh Thomas,

A false translation of a poem by Eva-Stina Byggmästar for Shannon Maguire

and I sad sweethearts and I jagged roses

and I jagged sweethearts and I said roses

just here inundates the stem of our roses

so much just here and I sad living and

asking your eyes are roses and I sad noise

money... water milk fake shit then again

and I sad you a girl and jagged rose

I said you a girl and I a pony and

I sad here pony I could be into

too many roses into not asking sad

jagged el and how and sad said I heard

under hair and living I sad it is just

here the stem of our roses

asking to at sea roses and sad said jagged

girl pony pony that can never be too many

roses and said sad jagged kiss

Hugh Thomas lives in Montréal, where he teaches mathematics at UQAM. His first solo book, Maze, was published in 2019 by Invisible Publishing.