Plop. Cling. Plop.

Plop. Cling. Swish. Plop.
New gestures, all the same.
Echoing
Inside closed places,
after doing your shopping,
before doing your shopping,
before tidying your shopping.
New gestures, all the same.
Those noises
Have changed us
Like the blast
Of an earthquake.
These faces, half-revealed:
Only
What is essential
You might see.
Plop. Cling. Plop.