From Creator to Creature After the birds and mammals lost their speech (the serpent's tongue having already turned to ash) and Heaven swayed and fell to within four miles of the earth, a disappointed God crept low into the sea’s womb, into Mary, our lady of the ocean, and transmuted his glory into the microscopic, a millimetre in size, living between grains of sand on the sea bed, eventually emerging in the form of a fish.

Credit: Ahmed Abdul Rahman The Octopus and the Fisherman A lobster paralysed by venom makes a fine meal for the octopus, whose cephalopod beak pierces clean the lobster’s shell, splitting carapace from meat. And still the sea sings with foamy lips. If startled by shark or stingray, the octopus vanishes like magic — a puff of ink, or into coral colours it contorts, bonelessly alien. Still the sea sings with foamy lips. The fisherm