This is the house
With or without hope
We always return home
(Jaroslav Seifert )
This is the house of lost joys
The house where all things come together
This is the house
Where the humming of the sun is heard
Through the cracks of the door
This is the house
Where deepest night
Drips from the wall
This is the house of those we forget each day
Where all things come together.
Rafael Ayala Paez (Zaraza, Guarico, April 24, 1988). Poet and writer. His poems have been published in literary magazines nationally and worldwide. He published Bocados de Silencio and The Lightness of Matter. Some of his poems have been translated into German, English, French and Hebrew.
Roger Hickin (b. 1951) is a New Zealand poet, visual artist, book designer & publisher. He is the director of Cold Hub Press which publishes poetry in several languages, including bi-lingual chapbooks of poems by two Chilean poets: Juan Cameron (with translations by the celebrated US translator Cola Franzen) and Sergio Badilla Castillo (with translations by Roger Hickin and the author).