BREN SIMMERS: A POEM

Bren Simmers

SPRING CONDITIONS AT BEST

We're tired of headlines, of doomsday

pessimism, of ponying up for a season

pass at Whistler only to get spring

conditions at best.

We want fresh pow and bluebird skies.

We want can, not can't.

Don't tell me what we've lost, show me

what we've still got left.

from If, When (Gaspereau Press, 2021). By permission of the author

Bren Simmers is the author of If, When (2021), Pivot Point (2019), Night Gears (2010), and Hastings-Sunrise (2015), which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Her work has won the Arc Poem of the Year Award. She lives on Prince Edward Island.