1D. "Biathanatos"

  Mirror that the years DAPPLE,
Black perennial AZALEA.

   Letters read by candle light,
Slowly; the truest the PALEST.

   Secrets inscribed in the blood
There, beyond the desire to PLEASE.

   Of ev'ry ScyllCharybdis
I never desired the LESSER.

Though their empire rivals our own
      The ants are EATERS.