Out of the Gutter Art

Outrageous Bipolar Expressions

Category: art

  • Gone. Baby Gone.

    The guilt, the responsibility was mine…

  • The Cold Weight of Guilt    CHAPTER 5, ORANGE BABY…    My little “farm” now included 3 indoor kitties in 2022: Zignatious the Fluffball, Zagnut the Torti-Tabby Tom, and my nameless rescue kitten, “Orange Baby”.     Her beautiful sister had been adopted by my Aunt, her name was Peach; she was as healthy and robust…

  • ORANGE Baby

    AKA The Crazy Cat Chapter 3    I didn’t want to become the “Cat Lady” of my new neighborhood. I had gotten off on the wrong foot, on day one, with an off-balance dope fiend who lived directly across the street from me. While attempting to acclimate my kitties to their new home, they had…

  • AKA: The Crazy Cat Chapter 2     Relocating to Tampa after my Dad had died was a horrible experience. I had run from the house I inherited when my Dad died. I had been primary caregiver for both of my parents; their deaths six years apart left me traumatized. Aching for maternal love, Tampa seemed…

  • AKA The Crazy Cat     It was a rainy February night, cold for Tampa Bay, when I found the kittens. There were 2, frightened and crying. One came to me readily, I thought it was alone until I heard another faint “mew” from the bushes that lined my front porch. Peering into the darkness, I…

  • Carl, the Wolf Spider

    Am I insane? Does it really matter?

  • Exhaustion Ensues

  • Floating

    The Dance    Dance of life never ends Ebbs and flows, comes round again                Love, loss, joy, strife Husband dies bereaving wife               Child is born, flame ignites Plays, then works, attaining might             Dawn rolls into darkest night      She loves, in love, loves inspite    Many times is love heartbreaking         Relentless…