Sustenance

from Out With Lanterns, a regular poetry practice

is in the ink in this pen
marking this line
on this paper. 
If I had a microscope 
agile enough to track 
the tiny ball rolling, 
and could zoom 
one million times
closer, I bet you’d see 
tiny sparks, fragments 
of light from another 
galaxy arriving here
just because of 
this small effort 
at creation.