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@catsbearsandme.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 5:11 PM

#Poetry
#BlueskyPoetry
#YahiaLababidi

You'll Know by Yahia Lababidi

You’ll know you’ve finally arrived when
you get to the point where you can leave
life’s bustling marketplace, empty-handed

Smiling easily at merchants as they hawk their wares
of fruit and flesh, pausing here and there to admire
a fine raiment or strain of song, but not for overlong

You’ll know you’ve cleared a hurdle and are home free
when you emerge at the end of that entrancing fair
unperturbed, without bulging pockets or hungry eyes

With absolutely nothing to show for the day’s visit
but a small inner triumph that quietly manifests itself
in steadying stillness and a companionable aloneness.

@newvillagepress.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 3:25 PM

Yahia Lababidi’s essay “The Artist as Preacher” examines James Baldwin’s understanding of art as a responsibility in connection to his own work. The essay is available for reading on our substack, New Village Views.

#NYCpublishing #YahiaLababidi #FreePalestine

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