Two Horses Eating Dirt

I drove by two brown horses in a small, fenced-in section of bare ground.  The horses appeared to be eating dirt.   Whatever grass and plants that once grew on the ground inside the pen vanished under-hoof long ago.

I don’t know much about horses.  I know which end you feed, and that’s about it.

But something about horses eating dirt doesn’t seem right.

—Mitchell Hegman