Spelunker

longdampdark exploration! hooray

a man walked into a longdampdark

and a dwarf bade him “good morning”

with a sharp smart salute

in the bat-filled underground echodark.

the dwarf vanished into some tunnel that

hadn’t been there moments ago:

geomancy. the man felt the ironsharp

pickaxe burrowing inside his belly.

a chunk of gold, daybright in that nightdark,

fell to earth and a wisp of light, dim

as the moon, floated by in search

of its breakfast, silver and gold comingling.

the cavefairy, hungry for its minerals, nipped at

the man’s fingers when he reached for it,

rubyred welling up, gleaming fiercely,

a thousand horsemen licked up in a flash.

a man ran from a longdampdark

and the sun bade him “good evening”

with a ray of light that illuminated everything

inside the leaf-filled aboveground stardark.

Author's Note

this probably doesn't flow too well uhh