THE WOMEN

by Eileen Ivey Sirota

AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for The New Verse News.

David Marcus of Fox News warned that “organized gangs of wine moms” are using “Antifa tactics to harass and impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.”  —Fox News, January 11, 2026

roving gangs of wine women

terrorize my neighborhood

brandishing corkscrews

and Prosecco

weirdly disrespectful

they have book club paperbacks

under their arms

multi syllabic words 

on their glossy lips

with their illegal varietals 

and their unlicensed vaginas

they imagine they could

turn back regiments

make the world safe

for children

Eileen Ivey Sirota is a psychotherapist, poet, and potter.  Her poems have appeared in Calyx, District Lines, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Voices: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, NewVerseNews, Ekphrastic Review, Lighten Up Online and elsewhere.  Her first chapbook, Out of Order, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020.   Having been raised in a family of political junkies and activists in the Washington DC area, political and cultural issues infuse her poetry.  She lives in Bethesda, Maryland where she alternates between sputtering outrage and gob smacked wonder. Her latest book Watching from the Bleachers (Finishing Line Press, 2024) unites these two tendencies.

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