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Articles by Kateri Lanthier
Severed | The Walrus
Mad-rich perfumed flowers, just as I’d craved, dew-soaked, so many I could barely grip their silk-wound handle. Stephanotis, freesia, roses, stock. Names in antique poesy from unwed great-great grands whose sepia volumes pressed loose petals odourless. Peaseblossom, cobweb. Nothing like this seething crush of scent-topped stems, slashed fresh from their roots. I couldn’t toss them to the next hopeful. Took the dizzy throng to expire in bliss, breathing hard all night by our hotel bed.
Kateri Lanthier | The Walrus
The snapped lights-out in my childhood bedroom / where roses on satin turned ghost-pale by streetlamp
January/February 2026
When our screens show us every possible version of pleasure, it’s hard to know where to go next
Harmonics | The Walrus
Like a private nightclub, this bright ambulance. Modular interior, glitter-futuristic fitted jewel box kitted out with drugs (theirs, yours in a bag grabbed from home). Spa recliner, straps, young paramedics like DJs, bouncers, sit-down comedians bantering about traffic. I stroke your tripping head while we ride backwards to the cancer choir, soprano wail and techno beat. Inner zones of ER, curtains like field-tent flaps.
March/April 2021
The startup’s simulations are so good that the main complaint from users is how difficult they are to differentiate from reality
poetry | The Walrus
You yourself are never an ending, / never collapse like the pinsetters’ set-up / or vanish like the smudged pencil Read More You’d see them hauling speakers at a gig, / drinking Cokes and fondly reminiscing / about that night (the ketamine! The wig!) Read More I’ve had my green leaves and my bloom.
May 2019 | The Walrus
Two new novels explore what it means to be Black in a country that prides itself on tolerance
Peony | The Walrus
I’m the peony’s spectacular collapse. A rose withers to a decorative casting of herself, brittle ringlets tiara-tarrying in prettiness perpetual. But the peony’s a smash hit, a one-downpour wonder, 10,000 tulle-shell loose lips, a thunder chord of labia in major and minor. Orchidaceous, power of ten. A flaming bedhead downward grinning, midstride of pride, flagrant, disinhibited with age. Confectionary blossom, delirium fleur du mal. Drowned perfume, a hurricane furled in your throat.
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