4PG010 - Christina van der Merwe

Very little artistic work captures the Big Hunger with more sentiment than this. It was a time marked by a widespread famine, causing the bunny population to fall to a fraction. Crops of carrots and cabbage turned to dust and even the wealthiest of bunnies were forced to scavenge the only flora available, which tended to be grey and not very flavorful. Of particular note is the way in which the flora is carried, drooping ever so gently over the arm and looking like the lifeless fuzzy ears of the recently passed. 

‘O that our brothers and sisters were thumped not by battle but by the Earthy mother

She took our loves, our greens, our merwe meadows, and left us with no other,’ sang Sweettooth Tail. It wasn’t until Thinhare the Digger found new ways of the water that irrigation began and the Big Hunger ended. By then, every bunny had known loss.