It reads, "Dear Barn, I'm writing to you to say goodbye. This place is slated for development and you'll be gone soon. I wanted to tell you how sad I am about this. I love to visit you because you are so old and beautiful. The ivy on your walls and the swallows nesting in your rafters make you seem alive and mysterious. I wonder who built you, and when, and why they abandoned you. I wonder what memories they have of you. Did they, like me, come out here at night to watch the fireflies rise out of the soybeans, while your shadowy shape sits like a ship in an ocean of light?"