"A Sea of Currencies" - entry for Write Me a Sonnet contest

In The Writers' Block poetry workshop, we've been excited about a poetry contest hosted this week by @chrisroberts. He's asking for original submissions of sonnets. The contest just happens to coincide with a few workshop conversations about iambic pentameter, so we were ready for this one!

And we hope Chris will come visit us in poetry workshop; he'd obviously fit right in! Below is my sonnet entry, and I'm excited to read the entries from other Writers' Block poets!

By the way, I've hidden a few easter eggs in this sonnet. Can you find three times the word "currencies" has been hidden in the first three stanzas?

A Sea of Currencies

A mermaid draws her money on account
from vaults her banker tucked beneath the quay.
The teller, told to charge a small amount:
“Incur and seize a fee as though a day.”

This fishy bank inflates the mollusk stores,
and troves of treasure chart a downward steep.
With current, seas seduce her from the shores
and move her clams from safety to the deep.

As currants ease her hunger, so a loan
assuages all expansionary urge.
The books reflect what auditors aren't shown
the clams, on ledger, suffer from a surge.

Once penalized for saving all her stash,
the mermaid swims away to spend her cash.

[ cover image courtesy of pixabay.com ]