It's national Poetry Month in America.

I'll leave the postings of respectable sonnets, haiku, odes, and lays to others.

I'm going to post "Mother Goose" rhymes: an amorphous collection of ditties and satire that have been memorized through generations, and sung for the amusement of small children (and sometimes, adults).

I've decided to do this, because there are more Mother Goose rhymes than the dozen or so everyone knows, and they deserve to be shared.

In honor of the flailing and racing around I did, yesterday, here's:

Anna Elise

Anna Elise
She jumped with surprise
The surprise was so quick,
It played her a trick.
The trick was so rare,
She jumped on a chair.
The chair was so frail,
She jumped in a pail.
The pail was so wet,
She jumped in a net.
The net was so small,
She jumped on a ball.
The ball was so round,
She jumped on the ground.
And ever since then,
She's been turning around.