25
THE BLUE FEATHER
“Your grandmother, Marie Anna, was born in the city of
Guadalajara, in Mexico, in the State of Jalisco. She was born at
five o’clock in the morning. There were ten stars that formed this
pattern in the northern sky.” Pancho drew a star in the sand that
turned a deep red color and moved around.
“She was born June the twenty-first, nineteen hundred and
forty. Your great-grandmother was born at four-thirty in the
morning, in the City of Oaxaca, also the name of the State in
southern Mexico. She was born July fifteenth, nineteen hundred
and five, when eight stars in the eastern sky made this pattern,
called an octagon,” Pancho drew the symbol in the sand along
with the rest of them.