Flèche Arnold Rampersad ensuring a lifetime of love

ensuring a lifetime of love

there’s no lever too cruel for this villain to use against her

and what its goals are for Oliver and herself

An ethereal meditation on partnership

Flèche Arnold Rampersad ensuring a lifetime of lovePOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Flche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong. This cross linguistic pun presents the queer, non white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flche'), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one's need for safety alongside the desire to shed