Split Firewood Stacked under a Porch Roof

Firewood in America is sold by the cord, a stack four feet high, four feet deep and eight feet long. That works out to 128 cubic feet of wood and air. The name probably comes from the cord once used to measure a pile. This one is smaller, birch and other hardwood split and stacked tight between two posts under a porch roof, with an old axe leaning against it. Snow covers the garden just outside. It's a firewood jigsaw puzzle of pale cracked ends and peeling bark.