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 F

Fistulous

Disease
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

“Fistulous” describes a fistula, an abnormal passage between organs, vessels, or body surfaces, often caused by injury or disease. It suggests painful bodily rupture and abnormal connection.

Detailed Definition
“Fistulous” is a medical adjective for a condition involving a fistula, an unnatural channel that forms between internal organs, blood vessels, or the skin. Such passages may result from infection, inflammation, injury, surgery, or chronic disease, and the word has a harsh, technical sound. In poetry, it is rare but potent in descriptions of damaged anatomy, wounds, decay, or grotesque bodily reality. Figuratively, a fistulous opening can suggest a troubling breach between private and public life, self and world, or buried trauma and visible expression.
Example
Example in poetry:
Fistulous channels carved through the ancient rock (Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Prometheus Unbound"); A fistulous wound that would not close nor mend (George Crabbe, "The Borough"); Fistulous caverns echoing the tide's deep groan (Lord Byron, "The Island"); The fistulous path winding through the swampy ground (William Wordsworth, "The Prelude"); Fistulous decay corroding the wooden hull (Herman Melville, "John Marr")
Additional Notes
"Fistulous" refers medically to an abnormal, narrow passage or channel connecting an internal organ to the body surface or to another organ. When used in poetic or literary contexts, it evokes disturbing imagery of hollowed-out paths, hidden decay, or persistent, unhealing wounds. Poets working in dark surrealism, gothic horror, or medical humanities may use "fistulous" figuratively to describe corrupt systems, subterranean tunnels, or psychological fractures that leak hidden decay to the surface. Teaching this term helps advanced students recognize how specialized medical terms enrich poetic vocabulary by evoking precise tactile and spatial imagery. Related terms include ulcerous, cannulated, sinuous, and corrosive.
Also Known As
Sinus-Forming Canal-Like Ulcerated
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