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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.

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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Console Table

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 narrow table placed against a wall, often beneath a mirror. It can frame entrances, appearances, and formal domestic space.

Detailed Definition
A console table occupies a threshold space, usually standing in a hall or against a wall beneath a mirror, clock, or vase. Poets can use it to stage arrivals and departures, with keys, gloves, letters, or flowers briefly resting on its surface. Because it is decorative as well as practical, it may suggest a household concerned with appearance and ceremony. In a poem of departure, an empty console table can make an entryway feel waiting, exposed, and strangely attentive.
Example
Example in poetry:
A console table in a hallway holds keys, mail, and the small evidence of daily departures; The poet places a cracked mirror above a console table to explore self-image and change; A vase on the console table can become a focal point in a still-life poem; “On the console table, your gloves waited through another winter” makes an object carry grief
Additional Notes
A console table is typically narrow and positioned against a wall, frequently beneath a mirror or near an entrance. In poems describing formal interiors, it can help establish class, taste, symmetry, and the staged appearance of domestic life. Objects placed on it, such as photographs, flowers, letters, keys, or ornaments, may become focal symbols. Its association with mirrors can also introduce themes of identity and self-presentation. Related terms include side table, mirror, hallway, drawing room, ornament, threshold, foyer, domestic display, symmetry, and social performance.
Other Meanings of “Console Table”
Also Known As
Console Pier Table
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