Avondale Logandale Takes a Cabbage Apart

This week we read an exerpt from “Some Puts a Pineapple Together” by Wallace Stevens. The students discussed how Stevens takes an everyday object and sees many wondrous worlds inside of it. I asked them use their own imaginations, to write many scenes about a new object… a purple cabbage! Enjoy!

Room 214

Purple Cabbage by Melanie M.

A gigantic grape,
round and soft,
wrinkly but purple
It landed on the seashore
from the milky way,
like a brain with an unusual color
So moist to touch
Six arms so pale,
so white, so pale, white snow

Someone Put a Cabbage Together by Eduardo H.

A brown and purple brain
Half like a zombie no, a
neat zombie ate it
A miniature dome for
mini Super Bowl 50
A rare purple turtle
inside its shell
Frozen volcano lava
from 3,000 years ago

Cabbage by Isaly H.

A big tree in the middle
surrounded by darkness
and dark magic.
Back like a beetle’s shell,
like a witch’s brain,
filled with darkness.

The Backstory of the Cabbage by Jovanny B.

A gigatic purple mountain
with all its beauty and
dignity
If the extinct lumpy owl
was here now,
it would take away the purple
lumpy grape
A very yucky brain–
an unusual color for a brain

Room 215

Cabbage by Hector F.

A brain
A purple root
It’s growing up
A purple tree
Like lava

The Purple Cabbage by Emmanuel M.

The purple flower
Growing with purple Water
With a purple person
Who is big

Cabbage by Jair M.

The tree is black
And looks like a brain
Like a ball

Someone Puts A Cabbage Together by Erick R.

The face is a tree moving the branches
Like a wolf blowing the branches away
Purple like a brain
Like an eye looking at you
Like an alien in space
And a purple world on top
Like aliens waving branches
And flowers that are like houses

Room 216

Daevian Put a Cabbage Together by Daevian S.

It’s a tree of fire
A ball of fire
A teacher’s vocabulary
When it comes out of the ground
I can’t wait for it to grow
We cook it up today
With some cornbread
And the best greens ever

Cabbage by Angel M.

Looks like a tree for me
And from the front
A brain

The Purple Earth by Bryan G.

The earth cut in its half
Inside it’s wetter than the sea
The outside smooth as the cover of a book
Colors mixed and matched in a pattern
Are you a head?
No matter what you are, don’t tell me
Even if I ask.

Someone Put A Cabbage Together by Christian L.

I hope we could throw the purple dodge ball
What a weird shape but gigantic
The big house never stops rolling over
Just like a brain but too purple
Growing like other plants