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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

Home › Glossary › Letter E

Extraction

Viniculture
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

Extraction refers to the process of pulling color, tannin, and flavor from grape skins during winemaking.

Detailed Definition
Extraction symbolizes revelation, intensity, and the cost of depth in poetry. It suggests that gaining substance requires effort and potentially harshness. Poets use it to explore themes of uncovering truth, the pain of insight, or the balance between power and delicacy. It reflects the idea that meaning is not surface-level but must be drawn out through pressure and time.
Example
Example in poetry:
Extraction pulled color and tannin from the skins, a pressure the poet called "the bruise that gives the wine its voice"; He wrote of extraction as the winemaker's grasp, squeezing the pigment and structure from the must; In her metaphor, extraction was the poet's deep reading—drawing out buried meanings from the text; The poet compared extraction to the pressing of olives, a physical effort that yields the dark, bitter oil; She called it the necessary violence of vinification, a maceration that transforms pale juice into a ruby confession
Additional Notes
Extraction refers to the winemaking process of transferring color, flavor compounds, and tannins from grape skins, seeds, and stems into the juice or wine during maceration, and it is a fundamental step in red winemaking that determines a wine's depth of color, palate weight, and aging potential; extraction is influenced by temperature, time, and the methods used (punching down, pumping over, delestage), and it requires a delicate balance—too little extraction yields a thin wine, while too much leads to excessive astringency and bitterness; in poetry, extraction serves as a powerful metaphor for the creative distillation of life experience into concentrated, potent verse, the careful pressure that releases the essential essence while leaving behind the coarse lees, analogous to the poet's selective memory and deliberate focus on the most resonant details.
Also Known As
flavor pull phenolic release color intensity
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