Hegelian Fragments : a sequence of dreams, written in poetic form and echoing with a sense of loss, which moves from the alienated to the absurd to the mischievous as it skirts the philosophical and skirmishes with the bawdy and the political ... before the narrator finally awakens.

Extract from Hegelian Fragments: a dream sequence

The poem Hegelian Fragments opens in the following way:

... and prophecies he said he culled
from Merlin soaking still in Merlin's Oak
to show how soon that bridge
by which romance is borne
beyond Hegelian strife
will be annulled
and neutered in the gene:
With blocks mounted and dovetailed into blocks
patch-worked existences with heave with life
and run the rub to barren
hub-hub sounds;
baronial powerhouses of production
concealing incisions of the
nanoscopic knife
will recompose and belch
organismatic smog
to fall as soot from smoke
and raining down, rein in
and strangle symbiosis;
orcismatic hordes
predators among competitors
inbred to breed so rife
and programmed
to contaminate every garden, every weed and worm -
and then to reign
and clamber over surfs.
From towers of brick laid brick on brick
which baronial contrivance well knows
can be live-stocked ...
under ubiquitous surveillance
the post-industrial (genetic) revolution
will be initiated.

He took a doll whose hair was grass
and flowers eyes, and as he spoke
he slowly pulverised her breast
she faintly choked with vivisected cries
and trembled in his hands so plaintively;
his fingers were thin and seemed to grope
and as they dug, his nails
were laquered and were long.