Welcome to our next installment of AAWW Recess, our new series of programming dedicated to creating a space of whimsy, play, and dreaming at a time when literature, especially for young people, is undergoing a harrowing battle against bans and erasure. Today, 2022 Margins Fellow Bret Yamanaka read their beautiful poem “Obake Obachan” for us, which was originally published in the Southeast Review and later selected by Rosebud Ben-Oni for the 2021 Gearhart Poetry Award.