{"id":4171,"date":"2022-01-10T22:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?page_id=4171"},"modified":"2025-03-01T18:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T02:49:45","slug":"aunt-winnie-fingers-the-thunder-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/articles-poems-by-jim-carroll\/aunt-winnie-fingers-the-thunder-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunt Winnie fingers the thunder to learn . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Ted Berrigan and Jim Carroll
From In The Early Morning Rain<\/em> by Ted Berrigan
Cape Goliard Press, 1970.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aunt Winnie fingers the
thunder to learn,
so that we have left everything aside
but not as a cloud mind steps beside
the slow reservoir
now it is all of this, the pink bulbs included,
which means we have “protected ourselves”
by forgetting all we were dealt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Jennifer Hunt for contributing this item!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ted Berrigan and Jim CarrollFrom In The Early Morning Rain by Ted BerriganCape Goliard Press, 1970. Aunt Winnie fingers thethunder to learn,so that we have left everything asidebut not as a cloud mind steps besidethe slow reservoirnow it is all of this, the pink bulbs included,which means we have “protected ourselves”by forgetting all we … Continue reading Aunt Winnie fingers the thunder to learn . . .<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4165,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[50],"class_list":["post-4171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-15h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9531,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/ted-berrigan\/","url_meta":{"origin":4171,"position":0},"title":"Ted Berrigan","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"May 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Ted Berrigan (1934 - 1983) is one of the most important figures in Jim Carroll's life and work. Having just published his first book of poems,\u00a0Organic Trains, in 1967 (when he was 18), Carroll gave a copy of the book to Berrigan, one of his literary idols. 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New Images","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"> > Misc. New Images > 8 January 2001 >These are images for which I haven't yet created pages. Portraits Jim Carroll -- Portrait from Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (PBS) Jim Carroll, Spring 1971 (by Gerard Malanga) Jim Carroll, Ted Berrigan, Lee Crabtree, and Julius Orlovsky (1969) Jim\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4174,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/feature-articles\/poems-to-and-about-jim-carroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":4171,"position":4},"title":"Poems to and About Jim Carroll","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Submitted by Index Ted Berrigan: \"Tough Brown Coat\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"Heroin\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"Something Amazing Just Happened\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"In Anne's Place\" Anne Waldman:\u00a0\"Poem for Jim Carroll\" TOUGH BROWN COAT by Ted Berrigan... For Jim Carroll Tough brown coatTie with red rosesGreen cord vestBrown stripeson soft whiteshirtwhite T-shirtWhite man,\u00a0 \u00a0 Tomorrow you die!\"You kidding me?\" HEROIN by Ted Berrigan\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9348,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":4171,"position":5},"title":"Important people in Carroll\u2019s life and work","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Index: Artistic Influences, Mentors, & Supporters John Ashbery\u00a0|\u00a0Bill Berkson\u00a0|\u00a0Brigid Berlin\u00a0|\u00a0Ted Berrigan\u00a0|\u00a0William S. Burroughs\u00a0| Joseph Campbell | \u00a0Tom Clark\u00a0|\u00a0Kurt Cobain\u00a0|\u00a0Salvador Dali\u00a0|\u00a0Edwin Denby\u00a0|\u00a0Bob Dylan\u00a0|\u00a0Lawrence Ferlenghetti\u00a0|\u00a0Allen Ginsberg\u00a0|\u00a0John Giorno\u00a0|\u00a0Richard Hell\u00a0|\u00a0Lenny Kaye\u00a0|\u00a0Jack Kerouac\u00a0|\u00a0Gerard Malanga\u00a0|\u00a0Ray Manzarek\u00a0|\u00a0Robert Mapplethorpe\u00a0|\u00a0Michael McClure\u00a0|\u00a0Henry Miller\u00a0|\u00a0Paul Morrissey\u00a0|\u00a0Forrest \"Frosty\" Myers\u00a0|\u00a0Phil Ochs\u00a0|\u00a0Frank O'Hara\u00a0|\u00a0Peter Orlovsky\u00a0|\u00a0Lou Reed\u00a0|\u00a0Arthur Rimbaud\u00a0|\u00a0Larry Rivers\u00a0|\u00a0Patti Smith\u00a0|\u00a0Robert Smithson\u00a0|\u00a0Terry Southern\u00a0|\u00a0Velvet Undergound\u00a0|\u00a0Anne Waldman\u00a0|\u00a0Andrea Warhol\u00a0|\u00a0Andy Warhol\u00a0 Index:\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8281,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4171\/revisions\/8281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}