Sunday, January 2, 2011

((two))



moon-sun
up-down
feet-head
asleep-awake
slap-hug
silence-scream

e-q-u-i-l-i-b-r-i-u-m

eyes-eyes
body-body
fingers fingers fingers fingers

dis-equi-lib-rium

panties-teeth
mouth-belly button
tongue-cloud
lightening-sea shore
abyss-salt
tunnel-sky

e-q-u-i-l-i-b-r-i-u-m





Translated by Nina Serrano
(original version in spanish here)


-peace and poetry-
Adrian, January 2nd, 2011

Saturday, December 11, 2010

My personal plastic sounds



1
I dream in a sea
of Polyethylene sounds
and plastic caress.

2
I wake up and look at the sky
polyester clouds raining nylon threads
over my Melamine face.

3
I play the drum of my skin
to the rhythm of polystaturated carbon
of my celofan soul.

4
If everything is a dream
I want to share the secret sound
of my journey with you.

5
Every morning plastic visits my mouth
in the form of a brush for my teeth
of a cup, of food…

6
Every morning coffee
and its aroma and its music
visit the plastic to dance.

7
My body resists to change
but I am a chameleon
half flesh half PVC.







Haiku-performance by Adrián
as part of "Beautiful Trash" project
@ de Young Museum SF
Friday December 10, 3:33pm
Photos by Danica Conneely
Thanks to Claudia Camille for her help



-peace and poetry-

Sunday, July 11, 2010

VITIS VINIFERA

“VITIS VINIFERA” (Climbing Grapevine)

Wood in the skin
after embrace
Vine of light
whisper in the afternoon
body that leaves its house
in the agony of air
imprisoned without feet but desired
unable to go back to the root
turning into memory
into aroma into river into madness into moon
that helps the lovers to savor the next kiss
and the lonely to sing without fear
this poem.


“VITIS VINIFERA”

Madera en la piel
después abrazo
enredadera de luz
murmullo en la tarde
cuerpo que deja su casa
en la agonía del aire
encarcelado y sin pies pero deseado
sin poder volver a la raíz
se convierte en memoria
en aroma en río en locura en luna
que ayuda a los amantes a saborear el siguiente beso
y a los solitarios a cantar sin miedo
este poema.





-peace and poetry-
Adrian


Award poem at Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2009
Adrian Arias (Peru-US)
English translation by Nina Serrano

Monday, April 5, 2010

(magic corner lovers)



The skin’s silence is dressed
with the scent of caresses
and the sound of love is fed
with the moving train announcing
they have reached the sun
in the middle of the night.




-peace and poetry-
© Adrian Arias
translation by Nina Serrano

Saturday, January 30, 2010

(instructions on how to find silence)



Look for pen and paper
draw the map of memory
following the dotted line
pause at X marks the spot
look at its sides
recognize that one is alone
that the map brought you silence
and that from there
nothingness finally has a place
and solitude a refuge.



-peace and poetry-
Adrian
***Translation by Nina Serrano



(Original Spanish version)

(instrucciones para encontrar el silencio)

Buscar la pluma y el papel
dibujar el mapa de memoria
seguir la línea punteada
detenerse en la cruz
mirar a los lados
reconocer que uno está solo
que el mapa fue para encontrar el silencio
y que desde allí
la nada por fin tiene un lugar
y la soledad un refugio.

-paz y poesía-
Adrián Arias

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Brief history of pain



I am a boy playing with dead fish
I hang them from the line where my grandmother
hangs freshly washed clothes
there dry my fish
with tails gripped by the wooden pins
face down dripping the last drops of the sea
that are God's tears
who doesn't exist but it does not matter
because when I am grown
and I wear a uniform
and die in the war
I will have to believe in him
to let the light enter my body
to bear the spilling blood
that will fill my mother's breast with pain.

© photo by Adrian Arias
Translation by Nina Serrano
Nov 2009
part of the unpublished book
“Book looking for where to live”

( en español )

Breve historia del dolor

Soy un niño jugando con peces muertos
los cuelgo del cordel donde mi abuela
cuelga la ropa recién lavada
allí se secan mis peces
con las colas apretadas por los ganchos de madera
boca abajo chorreando las últimas gotas del mar
que son las lágrimas de dios
que no existe pero no importa
porque cuando sea grande
y use el uniforme
y muera en la guerra
tendré que creer en él
para dejar entrar la luz en mi cuerpo
y soportar la sangre derramada
que llenará de dolor el pecho de mi madre.

© Adrian Arias

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

((( I open a box and...)))



I open a box and find the dissected wing of a bird…
I don’t remember having put it there …
I open another box and out comes your voice…
but how is it possible to hear your voice after so many years …?
I open another box and find my complete collection of spinning tops...
now I remember that I never had a spinning top collection…
I open another box and there is a sweet perfume
my grandmother’s aroma in the day she died…
I open another box and there is my first tooth…
no, it is my daughter’s first tooth...
I open another box and all the bills I haven’t paid appear…
next to all the money I had lost…
I open another box and a mirror sends back my own face…
It looks at me with curiosity… and i open this box
and found a piece of stone from the cosmos
…
This is the moving of my dreams the moving of my heart
the moving of my milk teeth
the moving of skin of pills of slaps of kisses
the moving that I swallow without chewing
that lives exhausted
and awakens every time I open a box.




-peace and poetry-
Adrian
Translation by Nina Serrano