The merwoman swam
to a stand of bull kelp.
The best-branching trunk she decorated
with glowing jellyfish and glass buoys
filled with a suspension of phosphorescent plankton.
Carefully she hung icicles of miter shells,
and augers for good luck.
On the top that waved toward watery sunlight,
she affixed a sea star.
Feeling charitable then,
she gave a sand dollar to a sea urchin.
Peace underwater,
good will toward merwomen!