How to pronounce “unlit” in English

It hung there unlit.

like an unlit match or a shrine box, waiting like the bedrock in a fault zone, waiting like a landmine in the jungle,

She was walking home through the dark-- already a bad idea-- and she decides he's going to cut through this unlit park.

Another way to look at it is it's like, and this is really much more true, it's like an unlit match kind of on the cusp