A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

Clothes Press

Furnishings
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

A tall cabinet or cupboard for storing clothing and linens. It can suggest household order, inheritance, and hidden textiles.

Detailed Definition
A clothes press is designed to hold folded garments and household linens, often behind solid doors that conceal its contents. In poetry, it can preserve the scent of cedar, lavender, starch, or a long-dead wearer, making fabric a carrier of intimate memory. Its shelves may represent domestic discipline and the labor of keeping a household respectable. When opened in an elegy, the press can reveal dresses, uniforms, or sheets that make absence suddenly physical and difficult to ignore.
Example
Example in poetry:
A clothes press filled with folded uniforms can suggest discipline, duty, or an inherited role; The speaker discovers a wedding dress in a clothes press, beginning a poem about family expectations; An empty clothes press after a move can make absence visible; “Moths made a quiet kingdom in the clothes press” creates an image of neglect and time
Additional Notes
A clothes press is an older form of cupboard or tall cabinet used for garments, linen, and household textiles. Its presence can help establish a historical domestic setting more precisely than the modern term “wardrobe”. Because clothing carries identity, status, intimacy, and memory, a press may become a repository for inherited garments, wedding linen, uniforms, or possessions of the dead. Opening it can become an act of recollection. Related terms include wardrobe, armoire, linen press, cupboard, chest of drawers, clothing, inheritance, domestic labour, household order, and material memory.
Also Known As
Press Linen Press Armoire
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