The First Inquiry

What shall we say, then?
Regarding the questions of "how" and "when,"
How can we speak of
When there was no "when"?

These twin constraints
of space and time
(if twins they are,
and not one-and-the-same),...
Which is the elder?

Or did God speak before Creation?
Did the Word have need of words?
I assume the angels sang.
Could they sing without words?
What music that'd be.

But then, perhaps, when God first
opened His Mouth,
that "first" was the first "first."

Did the spatial act of God speaking,
"Let there be Light,"
"there" after "Let" and "Light" after "be,"
One word, then another,
First one word, then another
word after the one before--

Was that the beginning
of both time and space?