the taste of yesterday

these women, some men
shop carefully
in the produce section
of the grocery store,
their carts pushed to one
side
as they study the fruit
and vegetables,
touching
and turning each peach,
each apple,
tasting one grape,
then another, looking off
as if remembering
what other grapes have tasted like.
what are they searching
for, tomorrows, no,
but yesterdays.
picking finally what suits
them,
placing
the onions, the potatoes,
the sweet corn
into bags, then moving forward.