Portraits Alan Berner
Kalakala | The crippled 'flying bird' of our ferry flock remains at sea
PREV
|
 ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES The Kalakala, a Chinook Indian word meaning "flying bird," served as a state ferry from 1951 until 1967, then as a seafood processor in Alaska before it was returned to the Northwest in 1998. For more information, see www.kalakala.org. |
Kalakala, ghost from the past.
Took flight from Bremerton to Kodiak,
a Quonset hut on the Alaskan mudflat.
Rescued and returned to fireboats and fanfare,
then spaghetti dinners.
Homeless since the band quit playing.
Living on a dollar a month in Tacoma.
Waiting for her millionaire lover.
|
|
|
|
Back to top