This week we read an excerpt 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… some of our poets entered a sort of meditative trance in their poems, while others created a whole scary story out of half of a purple cabbage! Enjoy!
Mr. Schade
4th Grade
The Purple Cabbage
Tyler E.
The tree has no leaves
The brain is purple
It feels it has a spine
The tree is a spider
It is not one
The Dream of the Scary Night
Abigail
The scary night
the ghost is rising
the tree goes dark
I can’t see anything
Oh god, some monsters
oh no, oh no,
the horror is rising
some person come help,
oh please, oh please
Purple Cabbage
Ulises
Tree
plant
hand
Big
purple
ball
Lava
Someone Puts a Cabbage Together
Arely
Half of a purple ball
A big weird bug
A big heavy brain
The head of a big head
The water spurting out of the lake
Ms. Brown
5th Grade
Someone Puts a Purple Cabbage Together
Nick D.
The purple leaves fell of the tree in a pile
Onions were squished togehter
A brain was just dissected and left
A rag hiding something underneath
Someone Puts a Cabbage Together
Dominic C.
Half of a bowling ball
A burnt egg
A purple tomato
Janari’s lead pencil
A brain
Someone Puts a Purple Cabbage Together
Janari R.
Like a tree, like a brain,
like a portal, like a
purple ball, and purple veins
Someone Puts a Purple Cabbage Together
Angel J.
The purple tree’s leaves
are falling off.
Anyone who passed by
ate the leaves.
It’s an “alien’s” head.
