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.

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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Mycelial enjambment

Device
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

Line breaks that spread laterally and connect non-adjacent lines like fungal networks

Detailed Definition
Mycelial enjambment describes line breaks that function like fungal networks—spreading, connecting, and nourishing meaning across gaps through subtle, subterranean links; it emphasizes interdependence and organic growth in poetic structure, common in ecopoetry that models textual form on natural systems.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emily Dickinson’s dashes create mycelial enjambment, connecting thoughts underground; Contemporary poet Jorie Graham’s fragmented lines use mycelial enjambment for cognitive linkage; Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother” uses mycelial enjambment between grief and theory; Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” uses mycelial enjambment to connect horse ride and transcendence; Robert Frost’s “Birches” uses mycelial enjambment between reality and escape; Lucille Clifton’s short lines use mycelial enjambment for ancestral connection.
Additional Notes
Mycelial enjambment creates underground-network effect through extensive run-on lines. Metaphor from fungal networks. Related to radical enjambment. Creates complex, interconnected meaning. Study contemporary eco-poetry for examples.
Also Known As
fungal lineation underground break
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