NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #7

In honor of National Poetry Month, and for those interested in its NaPoWriMo incarnation, Brightly is proud to bring to you the Dickinsonian Oracle's Oracular Writing Exercise.

Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle.
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry.

Today's Dickinsonian oracle mutters:

Sweet - safe - Houses -
Glad - gay - Houses -
Sealed so stately tight -
Lids of Steel - on Lids of Marble -
Locking our Barefeet out -
(E. Dickinson, from 684)

And the writing commandment:

Write a poem in which you describe (or imaginge) what goes on in your neighbor's house. What kind of lid keeps their crap in and your peeping eyes out? Use as the title of the poem the first four words of the question you posed to the oracle.