Published in Overland Issue 233 Summer 2018 · Uncategorized Office wear made me trans Harry Reid after melinda bufton does melinda bufton think this much about collared shirts? probably not. i imagine her at my new desk wearing a striped dress, matching earrings – she sends emails like culottes very fashionably, regardless of climate. i cross my legs maybe hitch up my pants, it’s almost beautiful but only before lunch. aspirationally, pinafores feature heavily – more immediately, a white blouse worn with high-cut black denim ‘like the horses album cover meets that clip of japan on top of the pops’ but the girl in myer doesn’t get it and hands me a gingham shirt she assures me is ‘fun’. cool, i’m out. Image: Magnus Franklin / flickr Read the rest of Overland 233 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Harry Reid Harry Reid is a poet based in Melbourne. They are a co-director of Sick Leave, and the author of the best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend (Puncher & Wattmann, 2021). More by Harry Reid › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 24 April 202624 April 2026 · Friday Poetry A slam dunk publication Michael Farrell Australians said, landed among manatees, did useful, / neatnesses, knitted, pleasingly. Spared liaisons, amassed, / mortal dangers, unforeseen, nor kids, prayed aloud. 1 23 April 202623 April 2026 · The media The importance of democratic frequencies: on the threatened closure of 2SER Daz Chandler 2SER operates not just as a broadcaster, but as an incubator of democratic culture, its alumni carrying forward practices shaped by collaboration, dissent and accountability to community.
