A Thunderbird Sighting Poem by Raj Dronamraju

Your rumored ending during the season of the chain
Fossilized form figure haunts wide awake dreams of the Cadillac set
Through the van's back windshield, the youth catches hold of a flash near subliminal
The vision regurgitated from cave painting to genetic memory

Thunder crashes on an otherwise sunny day
Expunging ease from the narrative of the whole
From unease come the monstrous avian mirage

The premonition falters and the hallucination ceases
To determine a sighting, see the proof of your own convictions
Watching prehistory ghosts in our conscious science/religion
Thunderbird rising, casting shadow on further epochs