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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

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Saignée

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

Saignée is a method of making rosé by bleeding off juice from red wine fermentation early on.

Detailed Definition
Saignée evokes diversion, lightness, and the byproduct becoming primary in verse. It suggests that rosé comes from red’s sacrifice, that pallor has value. Poets use it to symbolize secondary beauty, the elegance of withdrawal, or the creation of something delicate from intensity. It reflects the alchemy of reduction, where less color yields distinct charm.
Example
Example in poetry:
Saignée bled off pink juice from red must, a rosé method the poet called "the crimson tear of the vat"; He wrote of saignée as a minor release, a bleeding that concentrates the remaining red wine; In her verse, saignée was the blush of the harvest, a pale extract that shares the red's destiny; The poet compared saignée to a brief lyric, a short poem drawn from a larger epic; She called it the blush bleed, a rosé that is a byproduct but stands on its own as a delicate line
Additional Notes
Saignée is a winemaking technique for producing rosé wine, in which a small amount of juice is "bled" (saigner) from the red wine fermentation tank after a brief maceration of 6 to 24 hours, so that the remaining red wine is more concentrated in color and tannins, while the bled juice is fermented as a separate rosé; this method differs from direct pressing, where the juice is pressed immediately from red grapes without any skin contact, and it produces a rosé with a deeper pink color and more pronounced fruit character; in poetry, saignée represents the idea of sacrifice for concentration, a bleeding away that enriches the remaining whole, and it serves as a metaphor for the creative process, where some elements are diverted or lost to make the central work stronger and more focused.
Also Known As
bleeding method rosé extraction juice draw
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