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Blue Crayon
By: Rowen Ingrid Parker
Narrated by: Jessica Lynn Gober
Length: 24 mins

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Narrated by: Jessica Lynn Gober

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Summary

Blue Crayon is a collection of poetry and prose about mental health and endurance. Rowen Ingrid Parker explores the themes of love and survival in this moving and powerful collection of poems.

I told her that when I feel like self-harming instead of scratching
myself with my nails or paperclips
I like to run a blue crayon across my skin
she smiled a small smile
because she thought that I had found a way to stop
but when I told her that my scars
were the crayon’s doing
she lowered her head
And cried