Ben Pike

@ben-pike.bsky.social

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Hiker, carpenter, hobbyist writer, climber, SUP on flat water, sunfish sailboat. Was once a weekly Polk Street Beans & Cafe featured open mic reader in 1996 and I still have the mug. Words in the hamper and under my couch. Resist! Blue in a red county.

A scarred, grey cat eyeing suspiciously the camera.
A tough grey cat with a wounded ear
A man standing in a hollow tree
A black cat in sunshine listening to jazz
DJs Dr Jonny Fever and Venus Flytrap
Tom Waits. Bone Machine. 1992
Cannabis sativa
Kerouac reading his manuscript, which is one long scroll of paper, rolled up.
The black cat, Midnight, waits patiently near his food bowl.
A falling pine tree is suspended by live electrical wire thirty feet in the air.
Midnight The Cat waiting patiently for treats.
A bare Dogwood tree and a cove behind it, all drenched in early morning rain.
A mountain brook called Rocky Row Run tumbles noisily over rocks toward the James River.
an angry, white, male politician grimacing for his public portrait
High school senior photo of an average white guy wearing a bow tie.
a naturally rectangular stone in a creek reflecting trees.
Cat, lit wood stove, coffee pot.
Two-burner camp stove on an outdoor table covered in ice.
A framed letter from President Jimmy Carter to a supporter, dated Dec 5, 1980
Anchored a hundred feet up, I couldn't see them. But I later found patches of wet dirt where they had stopped, set him down, thumped and puffed, picked him back up, and continued toward the helicopter idling in the field, thumping for speed, thumping for hope.
The James River reflecting the sky with rocky row in the background
feline looking drowsy, or possibly scheming
A climber on a pillar that used to be a railroad bridge over the James River.
A handsome black feline atop a tree trunk surveys his domain.
Concave canvas depicting the artist's life.