Blue Crayon

Blue Crayon is a collection of poetry and prose about mental health and endurance. Rowen Ingrid Parker explores the themes of love, emotional battles and survival in this moving and powerful collection of poems. I told her that when I feel like self-harminginstead of scratching myselfwith my nails or paperclipsI like to run a blue crayon across my skin she smiled a small smilebecause she thought that I had found a way to stopbut when I told her that my scarswere the crayon's doingshe lowered her headand cried