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TORONTO MYTH - A collaboration with pictures by Lee Ka-sing and text by Gary Michael Dault

arch arrow automobile balloon bc bird bonsai book boot brushery building camera car carousel city clock closed cola connect construction couple crane cross-section cube cup curtain dancer dialogue dots Eiffel Tower engine eye fan fighter fish flag flower glasses guitar heart helicopter hold infinity key knife ladder lake leaf Leonardo lightbulb line LP luggage machinery mansion many match morning mountain movements moving on road other side paper paperclip plant powerbook problem rabbit rhythm rings room root running shadow speaker spiral spring staircase sun support tabletop telescope time machine torch touch tower track traffic trap tree unicycle up walkway wall water wheel wind window zero

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A storm tree burns to be a bolt of lightning, its thin, gleeful sap seathing up like full syrup, oil-black, boiling. The tree breathes heavily, like a leopard, its bark grown as rough as a tablespoon of molecules.