source: poem written by an elementary school student, in Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children, by Kenneth Koch (New York: Vintage, 1974), 39.

category: color, red, rose

medium: poetry

notes: full poem: Dog, where did you get that bark? Dragon, where do you get that flame? Kitten, where did you get that meow? Rose, where did you get that red? Bird, where did you get those wings?

source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol 7, 1966–1974) (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), 20.

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category: aesthetic, color, design, fruit, green, Japan, red, watermelon

medium: diary

notes: from a summer 1966 entry in Nin's diary (observations of her trip to Japan)