Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, the journalist grapples with raising a child in a time of ‘tremendous helplessness’ The question I ask myself the most is what temperature is my son On the days we bake along the coast I stare up at the s...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/24/a-poem-by-jan-fran-write-it-down-they-say-youll-feel-better-but-how-to-speak-the-unspeakable)

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