Spelunking

What’s written by candle in yr cave
won’t be read for eons by anyone,
no views, no visitors, no likes, no
comments, until erelong perchance
some fair spelunker crawling
horizontally across the buried
rocks of yr commas, not too deep,
discovers yr degraded predicament,
etiolated undertaking to connect
images in the dark of creatures
now extinct, spellings archaic,
broken syntax of yr past, and finds
yr crushed crumpet of a skull
buried like a period at the end
of yr tunnel up against a wall,
a scurvy potation spilled betwixt.

Published by Joe Linker

4 Comments

  1. Babs Curia says:
    June 5, 2021 at 1:40 pm

    Kind of dark

    On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 10:28 AM The Coming of the Toads wrote:

    Joe Linker posted: ” What’s written by candle in yr cave, won’t be read > for eons by anyone, no views, no visitors, no likes, no comments, until > erelong perchance some fair spelunker crawling horizontally across the > buried rocks of yr commas, not too deep, discovers yr degrad” >

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    1. Joe Linker says:
      June 5, 2021 at 3:32 pm

      Yes.

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  2. williamcurrey says:
    June 5, 2021 at 10:43 am

    See Robert McFarlane, Underland

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    1. Joe Linker says:
      June 5, 2021 at 11:10 am

      Looks interesting, but not for the claustrophobic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/robert-macfarlane-underland/590632/

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