Created for Material World, an exhibit put on by the Delaware Valley Chapter of The Guild of Book Workers. A few weeks before due date, I woke to find two of my Silkie hens and three chicks hunkered by my porch steps. A black bear had visited during the night. It destroyed the coop and snacked on the fertile eggs, two new peeps and a mama hen inside. They were fragile and feathery, as is their eulogy.

Photos by Valeria Kremser