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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

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reamer

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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 reamer is a rotary cutting tool used to enlarge, smooth, or finish an existing hole to an exact size.

Detailed Definition
Unlike a drill, which usually creates a hole, a reamer refines one already made, removing only a small amount of material to improve diameter and surface accuracy. It is used in engineering, metalwork, woodworking, and pipe fitting. In poetry the term may supply specialised industrial realism or become an image of relentless enlargement and correction. Its action suggests that an opening, wound, doubt, or absence can be made wider and cleaner through repeated turning, often with uncomfortable implications of precision applied to pain.
Example
Example in poetry:
The engineer turned the reamer and widened the hole by a fraction; A reamer may symbolise exact correction applied to something already opened; The tool's slow enlargement can suggest a doubt or wound being made deeper; In industrial poetry, its specialised function creates an atmosphere of precision and mechanical control.
Additional Notes
A reamer does not usually create a hole from nothing; it enlarges and finishes one already drilled. This distinction matters in technical or industrial poetry. Its carefully controlled action may suggest exact correction, refinement, or the disturbing widening of an existing opening. Because the process removes very little material, it can also represent small adjustments with decisive effects. Related terms include drill, bit, auger, boring, machining, hole, diameter, precision, finishing, rotation, engineering, enlargement, correction, and mechanical accuracy.
Also Known As
reaming tool
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