Heart of Dangerous Light

from QUARREL EP by Nikkiesha McLeod

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Heart of Dangerous Light - A refusal of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Somewhere, on a virtual journal
I spoke of the one person -
my person from the start
it was she and I, as in the one
capable of such powers:
can take me out this total absence of light
the one possessing such
God like powers as to create light
and with a flicker, take light
making midnight.

My person
the decider
the provider
whom carried a passenger
a dangerous fetus <a light>
all the way across to become
The/A fully developed danger with
dangerous pronouns:

THEY
THEM
THEIRS

A daring for so many
while
THEY
THEM
THEIRS
has a place in The Oxford English Dictionary!

Standing before you
by your side - *shoulder to shoulder*
breathing a dangerous light
Heart of dangerous light!

Person <my person> isn’t present
to participate in my dangerous vulnerabilities. To engage in them
enough to see them as entitlement
the entitlement which person, the decider
the provider of my dangerous light
handed over, so she still lives on...

To watch my diverse form of vulnerability
to experience/embrace my diversity of survival.
As the science and evidence based virtualization,
tangibilities of a black, transgender, immigrant
In America.

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from QUARREL EP, released October 30, 2018
October 30, 2018
Nikkiesha McLeod (vocals)
Mackenzie Shivers (piano)

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Nikkiesha McLeod New York

Nikkie McLeod was born in Trinidad & Tobago and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Identifying as queer/non-binary and being an immigrant creates its own challenges. McLeod reflects on that in their music. McLeod is releasing a new EP, called Quarrel, this October as a tribute to their brother and late mother. ... more

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