PUBLICATION DAY for BEFORE MY EYES....dedicated to novelists everywhere

PUBLICATION DAY for BEFORE MY EYES
A poem dedicated to novelists everywhere 
Another ordinary day—The sun will rise across the fields.The cold will parse the light,on par for February. My son will forget to zip or buttonAnd I’ll remind him, adding: ‘Put on a hat,’like my father always said to mewhen it was cold or hot.I’ll hear my father’s gruffand it will make me happy in a waythat when he was alive it never did.The teapot will shrill and I’ll hurry it off the stove top, hushing the boiling water.I’ll press my mug, with specks of tea
and milk and honey to my cheek, wondering what to makefor supper, and how I should get to work today writing—I don’t know what.I’ll spot black birds pecking at the ice-patched fields, the school bus ruffling aroundthe bend, and my son loping down the hill to the bus stop, andit will be an ordinary day except for the rushthat every novelist should feelat least once in their lives: today my book will be published.-- Caroline Bock 2.11.14, Look for BEFORE MY EYES everywhere books/ebooks are--starting today.