The poem object is a black egg placed in the bottom center of an acrylic jar. The title, Kaddish, is the Jewish prayer of mourning. At the base of the egg, a line of poetry by Walt Whitman is set in a spiral line. It reads,"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." The box is printed with the quote from an unidentified person, "...when she put out all her eyes from grief, they did not turn to fire but fell to earth as eggs..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The work deals with ship wrecks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dyar has written on the cardboard base, "Rocks, dirt & photos as mail art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.