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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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Trellis

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

A supporting framework that trains grapevine shoots and fruit into an orderly arrangement.

Detailed Definition
A trellis improves light exposure, airflow, and access while giving vigorous growth a structure it cannot provide for itself. It is an especially fertile poetic image because it joins freedom to constraint: the vine climbs, but along chosen lines. In verse, the trellis may stand for form, mentorship, grammar, or the social lattice that makes abundance visible. Its geometry does not stop growth; it teaches growth how to occupy space.
Example
Example in poetry:
A trellis is the system of posts and wires that supports growing grapevines; “The vines climbed the trellis in green handwriting”; A poet can compare the trellis to a staff, ladder, or musical scale for leaves; “After the storm, the winegrower tied each wandering shoot back to the trellis”; The trellis gives the vine structure while allowing sunlight and air to reach the fruit.
Additional Notes
A trellis supports the vine and helps position leaves and clusters for sunlight, airflow, and efficient vineyard work. Systems such as VSP and Geneva Double Curtain differ in how shoots are trained. Trellis choice affects canopy management, disease risk, and fruit exposure.
Other Meanings of “Trellis”
Also Known As
Vine Trellis Training System lattice
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