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Today's poem Chimeras by Brian Sneeden (Issue July/August 2024, Poetry Magazine) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162831/chimeras?query=M Charming. So charming. So I can’t help saying my impressions. This unrhymed tercet poem is meticulously crafted: metaphor and pronoun. Full of paternal love to poet's daughter. While reading the poem, these spooky pictures come up to my mind: a video clip of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Edgar Allan Poe’s works. The poem is well-structured by enchasing his daughter’s free imaginations. Love and wit with gothic elements (“Chimeras”, “the moon”, “the Wolf Singer”). In the beginning stanza, a reader can be confused with the line “She plants the vertebrae of  her enemies”, however, the third line allows the reader to figure out she is a small kid. The phrase “her enemies” might seem the poor common sense of adults that kills gorgeous imagination of children. The mysterious “the Wolf Singer” might be a coined one made by hi