Proof that Once She Was a Mermaid

[wasellajam]

Hi, milo, lovely title, makes me want to read it. some notes:

Proof that once she was a mermaid

She denies it with a laugh -              I like her already, pretty and smiling
shakes her head and disagrees -
but dips a taste of sourwood honey.  Looked this up today, rare and tasty
and doesn't fear the bees.                I can't really put together mermaid and bees, rhyming whimsy to me, I don't mind a puzzle.

Her warm green eyes swim              Knew she was a beauty
with memories of the seas
and when a siren calls -                    
some ambulance from hidden streets  Fan of all the s sounds, the siren/siren, the pull to reality
of dreary londontown -                      Not a fan of Londontown
she doesn't harbor                            Yes to harbor and its use here, successful enjambment
secret fears that it's for her
just shakes her head in sympathy for me.  So self assured.

She loves the taste of animals that hoof
the earth and graze the fields so openly -
who would not pretend to love
the taste of fish or salad greens?        While this strophe is fine, I don't think I'd miss it, can't figure out what it adds.

But I won't sow the earth with seeds of salt. Proof that there's always a new way to say something
or hide my eyes and ears to free my dreams.
No, bind me to this mast and let me hear her song
as others cry with emptiness -
the king's men starving at a feast.    The last two lines make me feel like I've missed the point of the whole thing, there goes both my cup of tea with a mermaid and my dive into how our perceptions are our own responsibility, not to mention how we over analyze  everything.  It's the king I can't get.

Very happy to see my old friend from the telephone thread. Whipped this up for a game, did you? Show off. 
This may help, when I checked the crit on mine on the other site I got thIs from pjr on S1:
"the pattern isn't continued in the rest of the poem. it's dangerous to set up expectations at the start of a poem unless you have a very good reason for not fulfilling them."

Seeing as I love L3 but not L4 I'd dump the rhyme, I think you can do it fairly easily and I don't think it will hurt the poem.

I also got dinged for "warm" on L5 but I don't mind it. All my other crit on it I'll claim for my own.

Hope you'll edit gently, thanks for the read.