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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Go thrust thy buttocks through the window frame,<\/strong><\/p>\n Thou always claimed the sun arose therein;<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019ve seen them all, yet no two are the same,<\/strong><\/p>\n Peach or Marquee, enormous things or thin.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ascending flocks of angels hide their eyes,<\/strong><\/p>\n The sun and moon shall turn away their face,<\/strong><\/p>\n White lightning bolts illuminate the skies<\/strong><\/p>\n As thy behind is shown, from place to place.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Go thrust thy buttock through the window frame,<\/strong><\/p>\n Let fancy fly at caution as it likes;<\/strong><\/p>\n Reveal its oblate splendour without shame,<\/strong><\/p>\n Give flying pigs a place to park their bikes.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Go then, like the ever-changing moon,<\/strong><\/p>\n Or like some vast, mutating macaroon.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Potato of Terror (Potato Tarquin Orbisfleur Terror III) (1968 \u2015 ), winner of the Three-Toed Elvis Duck Award in 1998, is a modern sonneteer who became known chiefly for breaking new ground with the New Tuberism Movement and the noble Ponnet form of the sonnet. He commenced his early writings in a freezing cold garret over a Chinese restaurant in Bethnal Green. He has since been published in The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry (Describe Adonis Press, Ottawa, \u00a9 2005), Sonnetto Poesia, Artvilla, Poetry Life & Times and Sara L Russell\u2019s e-book, Spiders & Gliders.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This sonnet is pre-published with the permission of the Editor-in-chief from:Richard Vallance, editor-in-chief. The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Anthology of sonnets of the early third millennium = Le Ph\u00e9nix renaissant de ses cendres : Anthologie de sonnets au d\u00e9but du troisi\u00e8me mill\u00e9naire. Friesen Presse, Victoria, B.C., Canada. \u00a9 2013. approx. 240 pp. ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-4602-1700-9 Price: $28.00 Paperback: 978-1-4602-1701-6 Price: $18.00 e-Book: 978-1-4602-1702-3 Price: TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n 300 sonnets & ghazals in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese & Persian.<\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/a>30 sonnets in this anthology are to be pre-published by our permission in Poetry Life & Times (UK) which has exclusive sole rights prior to the publication of the anthology itself. Readers may also contact Richard Vallance, Editor-in-Chief, at: vallance22@gmx.com for further information.<\/strong><\/p>\n http:\/\/vallance22.hpage.com\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0***<\/p>\n