Yutori

Thank you, Naomi Shihab Nye, one of my favorite poets, for uncovering the concept of yutori in a conversation with Krista Tippett. 

Yutori
The Japanese concept
Of what every schoolchild
Calls recess
Here
And more.
It's more than
Playing kickball
Way more.
It's more
Than simple time away
From scheduled things.
Yutori
An accomplishment
Of its own.
I never knew
It had a name
A form
Yutori
A way of seeing
That there's more
Way more
Between the cracks.