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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Brickfielder

Winds
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Brickfielder is a hot, dry, and dusty southerly wind that affects southeastern Australia, especially Melbourne, often bringing severe heat and poor air quality.

Detailed Definition
Named for the brickfields of Melbourne that were stripped of dust by this wind, the brickfielder is a classic Australian summer phenomenon. It accompanies cold fronts and can raise temperatures dramatically, sweeping dust across the city. In Australian poetry, it embodies the continent's harsh, unpredictable climate and the struggle against the elements. It is a metaphor for the fierce, unsettling forces of inland Australia, often used to evoke alienation, the scorching of memory, or the fierce beauty of the bushland under duress.
Example
Example in poetry:
Brickfielder|Brickfielder is a hot, dry, and dusty southerly wind that affects southeastern Australia, especially Melbourne, bringing severe heat and poor air quality.|Named for the brickfields of Melbourne that were stripped of dust by this wind, the brickfielder is a classic Australian summer phenomenon. It accompanies cold fronts and can raise temperatures dramatically, sweeping dust across the city. In Australian poetry, it embodies the continent's harsh, unpredictable climate and the struggle against the elements. It is a metaphor for the fierce, unsettling forces of inland Australia, often used to evoke alienation, the scorching of memory, or the fierce beauty of the bushland under duress.;
Additional Notes
The brickfielder is a classic Australian wind, a hot, dry, and dusty southerly that sweeps across Melbourne and southeastern Australia, often accompanying cold fronts and raising temperatures dramatically. Named for the brickfields of early Melbourne that were stripped of dust by its gusts, this wind is a symbol of the continent's harsh, unpredictable climate. In Australian poetry, the brickfielder embodies the struggle against the elements, the fierce, unsettling forces of the inland, and the alienation of the urban dweller confronted by nature's power. It is often used to evoke the scorching of memory, the harsh beauty of the bush, or the sense of displacement that comes with life on a vast, dry continent. Poets can use the brickfielder to explore themes of drought, fire, and the relentless pressure of the Australian landscape. Its dust-laden breath can symbolize the erasure of boundaries, the intrusion of the wild into the settled, and the gritty, unvarnished reality of life in the antipodes.
Also Known As
Australian hot wind dust-laden northerly Sydney scorcher
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