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Lisbon Train

I wrote retro-migration during my artist-in-residency stay at New Zealand Pacific Studios. I visited the Te Papa Museum in Wellington and the Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum in Masterton and as I was walking through viewing the many exhibits of the Indigenous Peoples artwork of textiles, carvings and reconstructed homes I noticed similarities in the techniques of craftwork that I had witnessed of other cultures on my journeys throughout the world. While viewing maps and historical images of past ancestors who lived and migrated in and out of New Zealand, it occurred to me that we are all interconnected. From past to present, we live in this one World and we are all indigenous of the Earth and together we are family.

retro-migration

KM Sharp is a poet, writer, MSW, activist, producer and photographer originally from Saint Louis, Missouri, moved to Los Angeles, California and now lives as a digital nomad traveling and exploring the world. Kristin studied under the renowned Welsh-American poet, bard and scholar Jon Dressel and co-produces a monthly literary and music show called Poems, Prose and Pints at Dressel’s Public House in STL. She has performed in shows and events nationally and internationally. Kristin is the author of two ebooks, I Become One and Heirs of November and her poetry and writings appear in various publications and anthologies.