Sallie Wolf

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Sallie Wolf is an observer; she uses her training in anthropology to observe the world around her. She uses her artist’s eye to translate her observations into paintings, installations, books, music, and workshops that make sense of the data. The Moon Project grew directly out of a few casual notations in her journals which developed into an artist’s obsession. She also writes books, relying on her curiosity to guide her. Her most recent book, The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound: A Birder’s Observations, re-released by Imagine!, an imprint of Charlesbridge Publishing, is a collection of bird observations told in poetry, lists, questions, notes, and sketches. Sallie Lives in Oak Park, IL, where her garden is devoted to attracting birds. She works out of Calypso Moon Studio in the Oak Park Arts District. She spends part of every summer in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, hiking, swimming, sketching, and enjoying her extended family. Her resulting artwork is represented locally by Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery in Center Sandwich. Sallie and her husband, Chuck, a retired lawyer, are determined to travel the world as quickly and thoroughly as possible, while Sallie documents each trip in her journals. Source

The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound

The robin makes a laughing sound.

It makes me stop and look around

to see just what the robin sees—

fresh new leaves on twigs of trees,

a strong, high branch on which to rest,

a safe dry ledge to hold its nest.

The robin makes a laughing sound.

I stop. I always look around.

Published:

2010

Length:

Regular

Literary Movements:

Children's

Anthology Years:

2022

Themes:

Nature

Literary Devices:

Alliteration

the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words appearing in succession

End Rhyme

when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same

Imagery

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

Repetition

a recurrence of the same word or phrase two or more times

Sensory Detail

words used to invoke the five senses (vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell)