This workshop will give us an opportunity to lean as a community into the shared understanding of what a caregiver’s grief can feel like. In the first half of this workshop, we will do a close reading of a simple poem that speaks to the caregiver’s experience, and reflect together on our observations of what’s happening in the poem. In the second half of the workshop, Hui-wen will give participants a very simple writing prompt to bring forth their own stories. The workshop will close with opportunities for any willing participants to read out loud what they have written, and to receive the community’s shared empathy in response. Participants are under no obligation to read their writings out loud, and are more than welcome to simply quietly listen as well.