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 I

Interrupted exchange

Technique
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 poetic or dramatic passage where dialogue or thought is cut off or left unfinished, creating tension or ambiguity

Detailed Definition
An Interrupted exchange is a dialogic poetic structure in which a conversation—between lovers, adversaries, or inner voices—is fractured by silence, intrusion, miscommunication, or external forces, symbolizing relational breakdown, historical erasure, or psychological fragmentation; often marked by dashes, ellipses, or typographical gaps, this form dramatizes the limits of language and connection, as in Muriel Rukeyser’s documentary poems that juxtapose testimony with bureaucratic redaction, or contemporary works that stage cross-generational dialogue where trauma interrupts transmission, making the rupture itself the poem’s central subject.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” features interrupted exchange between Hamlet and Ophelia; Emily Dickinson’s letters to “Master” form interrupted exchange; Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” stages interrupted exchange with dead father; Contemporary poet Ocean Vuong’s “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” presents interrupted self-dialogue; Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” constructs interrupted exchange with silent envoy; Terrance Hayes’ “American Sonnet” series features interrupted exchange with imagined interlocutors.
Additional Notes
Interrupted exchange depicts dialogue broken by silence, intrusion, or hesitation. Related to dialogic discourse and peripheral run-on. Reveals power dynamics or emotional strain—analyze what’s unsaid as much as what’s spoken.
Also Known As
Broken dialogue Interrupted talk Cut-off exchange Broken conversation Fragmentary dialogue
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