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Montaigne and Human Nature
(Michel de Montaigne, French essayist, 1533-1592)
Once a day I sit discharging
my humanity, staring dumbly at
the floor or browsing magazines.
Montaigne would have thought it
an act as natural as any other
demanded by our human nature.
Later, alone in his tower,
surrounded by an antiquity
of books and writers – all closer
than family or friends –he would
think it just as natural to essay
comely words on the subject,
giving matter-of-fact, unblushing
articulation to what, after all,
was, at bottom, purely human.
Copyright ©
Maurice Rigoler
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