CHECKPOINT   Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide in front of the security gate at the border at Portbou, which closed the day before his arrival: history’s final insult. He had extraordinary ideas, ideas that at the end of that same night of passion flew over all the barriers and landed beyond every border. For … Continue reading “Checkpoint”,”Cactus Flower” and “Roirama”- three poems by Julio Monteiro Martins