begin

at the beginning

because it is the only option

at the beginning

when there was Chaos

at the beginning

when there was Imagination

at the beginning

with all the dust

swirling … commingling … colliding
… clumping … separating …
every fleck the possibility
of a star or
a baobab or a raindrop
or a trout
or
an image of God

at the beginning

just the dust of possibility

so at this beginning

with hope, we begin