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ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong> WST1 : This piece depicts Waardenburg Syndrome Type 1 in three formats: a drawing of syndromic, heterochromia eyes, with the double helix replacing the nose; a handwritten explanation of the underlying genetics; and a typed haiku describing my resultant appearance.<\/p>\n The Deafhearing community of Martha’s Vineyard : Due to hereditary deafness on the island, Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language became a lingua franca for its deafhearing community; since it was probably similar to British Sign Language, I have represented it by fingerspelling M V S L in British Sign Language (BSL).<\/p>\n \u2018Write a light poem about the zoo’ : This piece is a promotional flier for the category of \u2018light poem’ within the traditional, Welsh medium, local eisteddfod event, which will take place in Rhosllannerchrugog in 2021 (having been postponed); the theme for the competition is \u2018The zoo’.<\/p>\n Operation Yellow Hammer \u2014 meta : This piece relates to the British Government’s contingency plan for a no-deal Brexit, which was codenamed Yellow Hammer \u2014 a reference to the bird, whose call, onomatopoeically, sounds like \u2018a little bit of bread and no cheese’.<\/p>\n In the 93rd of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Sara Louise Wheeler.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":99736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111797,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99732\/revisions\/111797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSara Louise Wheeler writes the column \u2018Synfyfyrion llenyddol’ (literary musings) for Y Clawdd community newspaper in her hometown of Wrecsam. She is involved in the literary scene in the area in a variety of ways, including: being a member of the Owain Cyfeiliog society; helping to promote the forthcoming local eisteddfod in Rhosllannerchrugog 2021; and a new role as a \u2018Stampwr lleol’, helping to promote Y Stamp magazine, encouraging and supporting new contributors. Her poetry, belles lettres and artwork have appeared in a variety of journals, magazines, and associated websites, including Tu Chwith, Y Stamp, Meddwl.org, G\u00c5\u00b5yl y Ferch, Qualitative Inquiry, and The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography. Sara is currently conducting an introspective, mindfulness project called \u2018Encil Cilgwri’ (Wirral Retreat), with the main aim being wellbecoming \u2013 the process of reaching a state of wellbeing; as part of this project she is exploring her embodied experiences of Waardenburg Syndrome Type 1 \u2013 through a variety of creative mediums. Other themes include dialect interactions, class, neurodiversity and borderland life. She is a Visiting Research Fellow in the psychology department at Glynd\u00c5\u00b5r University and she lives in the village of Ness on the Wirral peninsula with her husband, Peter, and their pet tortoise, Kahless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"