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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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trephine

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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 trephine is a surgical tool with a circular cutting edge, used to remove a disc of bone or tissue.

Detailed Definition
Trephines have been used historically to open the skull and in modern surgery to cut precise circular sections from bone, cornea, or other tissue. The instrument's medical specificity gives it an unsettling force in poetry, where it may evoke early surgery, bodily invasion, science, madness, or attempts to release pressure and hidden suffering. Because it creates an opening into what is normally sealed, the trephine can symbolise extreme inquiry, violation, or the dangerous desire to reach the physical seat of thought.
Example
Example in poetry:
The surgeon positioned the trephine against the bone and began the precise circular cut; A trephine may symbolise invasive attempts to reach the physical source of thought or suffering; In historical poetry, it can evoke the frightening limitations of early surgery; The round opening it creates may represent extreme inquiry into what nature ordinarily keeps sealed.
Additional Notes
The trephine is a highly specialised surgical instrument whose circular edge removes a disc of bone or tissue. Historical references often concern operations on the skull, though modern forms have other medical uses. In poetry the tool may evoke fear, bodily invasion, scientific ambition, madness, or attempts to relieve hidden pressure. Its opening into a sealed part of the body is symbolically powerful. Related terms include trepan, surgery, skull, bone, circular blade, medicine, anatomy, pain, pressure, inquiry, violation, healing, and the dangerous search for the seat of consciousness.
Also Known As
trepan crown saw trepanning saw
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