"When the sun gets low, in winter,⁠ The..

"When the sun gets low, in winter,⁠ The lapstreaked side of a red barn⁠ Can put so flat a stop to its light⁠ You'd think everything was finished.⁠ ⁠ Each dent, fray, scratch, or splinter,⁠ any gray weathering where the paint⁠ Has scaled off, is a healed scar⁠ Grown harder with the wounds of light."⁠ ⁠ by Howard Nemerov