I liked your example, the elision of 'me' especially. It's not a simplicity thing, that "wrongness". Here's something short by Zukofksy. I just ignored the difficult part, the vines are like their child's toys? Anyway, my point's easily made, and how poets like Dickinson seem (for me) able to write *around *the metronome? [image: Inline images 1] All the best, Luke