Pushed away: Aerosols

It refuses the invisible on the grounds that invisible things get in without asking, and holds the sacred in the same category as anything else that arrives uninvited and cannot be kept out by ordinary means. Rejection registered before memory taught it that what it could not see had already reached it once, so the answer has been a sealed house, kept sealed by a policy of not admitting that any such thing exists. What it asks for is to notice how much of the sealing is aimed at something already inside.

I keep everything shut, because whatever's out there doesn't knock.

It echoes Pentheus, who locked the gates of his city against a god he refused to acknowledge, while every woman of the household was already on the mountain. The form implies a task: to look at the mountain before reinforcing the gate.