ISAKU’S SONG FOR HIS FATHER

https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/UHpWS3a76U/

This is a song Isaku wrote for his father, “Sanctity,” featuring Sumie Kaneko on vocals.

あなたからの　贈りもの

遠く離れても　耳をすませば

私の大事な宝もの

か弱い鼓動　今は誇り

惜しむ間もなく　走れども

もう何も耐えることはない

てしおにかけた　我が子ども

もう何も迷うことはない

This is how I’ve translated the words into English:

This gift I got from you

Listen hard, even from afar  

It’s my most precious treasure   

That faint beat is now my pride;

Before one even knows it, that passing of time,  

There is nothing to bear anymore,

That child, you raised with all this love,  

There is no uncertainty anymore

From “Katari Vol. 2 Stories from Japan” by Isaku Kageyama 2025.

My Poem “ode to the stroller” now part of the Public Poetry Series

My Poem “ode to the stroller” now part of the Public Poetry Series.
Poetry by Yuri Kageyama.
Read by Hirokazu “Jackson” Suyama.
Film by Adam Lewis.

we zip weightless like silent angels
up and down San Francisco hills
running on the mother of all energy
greener than solar
rolling rolling rolling
with laughter
cream acid rock ‘n’ rolling
lightning dazzling wheels
gara-gara-gara-gara
teethers jangling dangling dancing
going mad on strangle-free rubbery ribbons
up and down the Avenues
J-town, Clement Street
Golden Gate Park
Museum of Modern Art
we are singing:
“Ouma no oyako wa nakayoshi koyoshi
itsudemo issho ni pokkuri pokkuri aruku”
perfume wind in our hair
springing over potholes
not even stopping just for breast feeds
connected as one through this magical machine
me pushing
you riding
the Lamborghini of strollers
the Gundam of strollers
the little train that could of strollers
up up up into the joyous clouds
zooming wheeeeee
down slurping slopes
around swervacious curves
we are one
yes, we are one
tied in the past with our
umbilical cord
and
even in death
in our dreams