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OUR LIFE Monthly, published by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America VOL. XLIX DECEMBER 1998 Editor: TAMARA STADNYCHENKO ’’SVIATA VECHERA/ CHRISTMAS EVE by GINA M. TABASSO When you bake a round-shaped bread you help the sun to be bom hay and straw from the stable in the manger, placed under the cloth one tablecloth for the living and one for the dead, an extra place setting for the departed who eat at night, garlic at the comers to shoo away evil kutia, boiled wheat with honey and poppyseed, sacrificed to the gods then uzvar 12 dried fruits in a stew 12 dishes for koroten, winter solstice eve, dedicated to each full moon that became Christian became an apostle God's food when the first star appears. The table is moved into a holy comer under icons draped with baba's embroidery old grandfather, didukh sits with a sheaf of ribboned wheat at his back. He waits to return as stalks of harvest grain. Gina M. Tabasso has been published in numerous poetry anthologies and is associate editor of Grasslands Review. She is a member of UNWLA Branch 8 in Parma, Ohio. "НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ", ГРУДЕНЬ 1998 15
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