Mike Freveletti is a consultant at an insurance firm in the Western Suburbs of Chicago. He has been writing poetry, short stories, and plays for the past 10 years. He is currently the Historian and Email Coordinator for the Illinois State Poetry Society and his work has been published both online and in print for publications like RiverPoets, Kind of Hurricane Press, and Gyroscope Review.
Before We Get to Desire
I find myself drawn to the security
Of a single though
tNot a confluence of ideas
Or a sense that commonality
Is what binds us to one another
Yet the only angel I look to
Is the one who unravels expectation
And draws upon the night
The only true instance of silence
Where that security is a dream
That formats what we are
In this house, being ourselves.