Blaine Newton: ``These are recent work, looking at relationships from very different points of view. The majority of my writing experience has been with plays, with more than a dozen productions with theatre companies across Western Canada. My short fiction has been featured on CBC radio and in the Edmonton Journal, and published in an anthology of central Albertan writers. For four years I also contributed a regular column to the Interchange Magazine in Winnipeg.

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Come, my love, and share the muted dark,

deep beneath the layers where our passion lies.

Share with me the whispers and gentle touch,

single words and wounds only half-suppressed.

Stay with me until the morning light reaches

past the blind's edge, to draw us back to day.

Blaine Newton

Red Deer, Alberta

Chance Encounter

I saw you toady as you will be

thin and grey dressed

in the clothes of someone

half your age.

Muttering

your movements abrupt

comfortable in your beliefs

the world at arm's length.

Your perfume of smoke

and our milk and urine

your hollow eyes searching me for

coins or a kind word.

Finding neither you shuffle past

and I expect you to turn back

suddenly to cast off your coat of age

and become the one I knew.

But you spit sleeve

to mouth and I turn back

to my life forgetting that

I ever loved you.

Blaine Newton

Red Deer, Alberta

The Waiting Game

The cup outside your window

fills with rain

spilling over in stutters.

Sometimes I feel that even a

stalker would have nothing to do with me

that even Hitler would refuse

to annex my distant regions

that even you would forget to

return my call.

Blaine Newton

Red Deer, Alberta