The Millennium Hotel: The Rider Quintet, vol. 2

Contents

Contents I SCREEN IMAGE Birthday Blues 3 Screen Image: (Royal Emerald Hotel, Nassau) 9 Gratuitous Act 12 Role Play (after Horace) 15 Distracted in Beverly Hills 18 II THE MILLENNIUM HOTEE The Millennium Hotel 25 1. Prologue and Lament 25 2. Nothing Seasonal 27 3. The Path 29 4. Stormwatch 33 5. The Millenium 37 6. "Around this timeyou began making transcontinental flights alone." 43 7. After the Storm 45 8. "And What If It Had Been His Last Wish . . ." 46 9. The Stewardess 48 10. The Heights 50 ti. 1812 53 12. "Our beautiful mothers! Death isn't..." 57 13. Walker's Pond 58 14. Semaphore 59 15. Night Thoughts (after Heinrich Heine) 67 16. "Succulents subjected—" 69 17. "How far can we take chance, can chance take us?" 71 18. (Pause.) 75 19. March (after Boris Pasternak) 78 20. In the torrent (after Johannes Bobrowski) 80 21. Pool Hall 82 22. Before Summer Rain (after Rainer Maria Rilke) 84 v 23- Poolside 85 24. Gorge 93 III MOTEL EN ROUTE TO "LIFE OUT THERE" Wood Floors 97 Love's Way 104 Love's Mirrors 114 Sec Design 117 Soho: The Early Days 121 Easter Weekend in Denver 125 On the Wheel Of 134 Aesacus, the Diver (after Ovid) 145 Aesacus Risen 149 Aesacus and the Dancer 151 Mixed Messages 152 Motel En Route to "Life Out There" 164 IV ABOVE AND BELOW Above and Below in Mexico 177 Notes 185 vi ...