Rail Gaps to Count

Posts stand. Gaps live between them. Gaps are where goats think.

How many gaps along this short rail? asked Spike. Not how many posts — gaps.

Suzy walked: post, gap, post, gap. She almost counted a leaning shadow as a gap. Shadows are not gaps.

Spike STOP-LOOK-THINKED. Six posts in a tidy row make five gaps between them.

Five gaps, Suzy repeated. One less than the posts when they stand in a single line.

Canberra approved of numbers that match timber. London waited as if queueing for water rights.

They marked the third gap with a stick so a soft-eye check had a place to start.

Little Thunder stood on the correct side and did not invent a sixth gap for drama.

You can count gaps on a fence picture: posts first, then gaps, then check.

Fence maths is noticing what is missing between what is solid.

Lead means knowing where the weak spots are — then watching them kindly.

Posts stand. Gaps count.