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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 F

Fino

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

Fino is a type of dry sherry, aged under a layer of flor yeast, giving it a pale color and crisp, almond-like flavors.

Detailed Definition
Fino’s poetic charm is its ephemeral freshness—it must be consumed young, making it a symbol of immediacy and the fleeting nature of perfection. Its pale straw color and delicate flor-driven aromas evoke the whitewashed bodegas of Jerez, the salt from the Atlantic, and the harsh, chalky soil. Poets use Fino to discuss the urgency of pleasure, the imperative to seize the moment, and the purity of form without adornment. Its sharp, dry finish leaves a clean slate, much like a well-turned epigram.
Example
Example in poetry:
Fino|"Fino is the driest, palest sherry, a wine of freshness and almond-like flavors, a poem of clarity and immediacy."; "The poet, like the sherry lover, appreciates Fino's ephemeral nature, its need to be consumed young."; "Fino's flor yeast is a living veil, a subject for poems about the delicate balance of nature and winemaking."; "The poet uses Fino to discuss the beauty of the fleeting, the importance of seizing the moment."; "Fino's crisp, dry finish is a model for the poet's own quest for precision and purity."; "Fino is the wine of Jerez, its pale color and sharp taste a reflection of the Andalusian sun and sea."
Additional Notes
Fino is the driest, palest style of sherry, aged under a veil of flor yeast that protects it from oxidation and gives it a distinctive, crisp, almond-like character. Because it is so delicate, Fino must be consumed relatively young, making it a potent symbol of freshness, ephemerality, and the beauty of the present moment. Poets can use Fino to explore themes of immediacy and the fleeting nature of perfection. The flor yeast itself is a living organism, a cap of yeast that thrives on the wine's alcohol, a subject for poems about symbiosis and the unseen life that shapes our pleasures. Related terms include sherry, flor, and Amontillado.
Also Known As
Fino sherry Amontillado
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