Joseph Levine / Four

Four

Joseph Levine

I don't remember much about my growing up but the number four, for me, had significance. Up the stairs I'd start left foot right foot, left foot then right for a total of four three separate times to cover each of twelve creaking wooden steps which, for me, wouldn't creak having learned to walk their edges in just the right way to scale them in a quick silence.

The mornings my father returned my mother would send me off to go upstairs, and I'd start left foot right foot, left then right for a total of four three separate times and then one more set on the beige-carpeted floor to be in my bedroom where behind me I would click shut the door.

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