To strain it through a gauze of one's own making does violence to it. Last time I checked Genesis 1 was still part of the Bible. As such the claim the Bible makes for itself as the inspired word of God applies equally to it. Thus, I have real theological difficulty having God tell us things that are not factually true without clearly marking it as a parable. What surprises me is that you, an antievolutionist, are arguing for an allegorical Genesis 1.
Content is different than literary form.
That is what I showed in my two bad poems. One can write a poem which tells all the truth or some of the truth or even none of the truth. I do not think that it is straining genesis through my own gauze to expect objective, not subjective, truth out of something that purports to be God's word. Under the interpretation I see you pushing, the conclusion would be that God might not have done something about plants on the third day. To believe that might be straining it through my own gauze.