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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

Day 111 – April Outside the Hospital

April in the Forest

The ground opens
in April

unbuttoning herself
to welcome the moon.

I have seen
this before. Or

maybe I haven't
ever seen the way

the leaves twirl
as they step from

their buds. Or the
way the earth

swallows more of me
each spring

as I melt back
into her, part of me

struggling against the
quicksand. The rest

exhaling relief.

I am remembering
what I knew as a baby

& forgot until this April
when I saw the earth open

in the center of the forest.

-Erie Chapman
S up and down

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2 responses to “Day 111 – April Outside the Hospital”

  1. ~liz Wessel Avatar
    ~liz Wessel

    Remembering we were Loved into being…

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  2. Karen York Avatar
    Karen York

    I am particularly captivated by the lines, “part of me struggling against the quicksand. The rest exhaling relief.” This is one of those poems that has no boundaries, no bottom. I could live in this poem a really long time and never fully comprehend its impact. Thank you.

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