By Richard Mather
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.
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