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Gudrun Mouw was born Gudrun Dorothea Wacker in East Prussia in 1944. After her maternal grandfather received deportation papers to Auschwitz, she became a refugee. At the age of 7, she arrived in the United States with her parents as a displaced person.

Gudrun Mouw received her Master’s Degree in English Literature in 1969. In 1978, she received her yoga instructor certificate from the Integral Yoga Institute founded by the late guru Swami Satchidananda.

She has worked as a community college English teacher, a university librarian, a columnist and a California poet-in-the-schools. Ms. Mouw has lived in the Santa Barbara area for 38 years, writing, as well as teaching yoga and meditation.

Her poems have appeared in literary journals such as PRA
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November Wind

Cold under a sun intensely bright,

another day finds it’s unstable way

towards an end. True to nature, the wind

does not say where it goes, or from where it came.

November wind, I am not the only one 

who contracts. Now, I ask

what are you unwinding, wind,

and is that the sound of encouragement?

I imagine, there, beyond closed windows.

Since that west March deployment across the Atlantic,

I have not like

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