What Susan said. I too love the narrator/poet's emotional honesty in this. (It's so nice to see a risk taken and rewarded!) I think that the honesty reveals itself at the level of word choice: "Armed with my latte" is, I think, priceless economy. The honesty and the vocabulary are all of a piece; this is a poem whose form and content are formidably integrated.
Ever since I showed up at Erato, this poet (who had the misfortune of receiving my second-ever critique, a really lousy one) has impressed me not only with her willingness to wrestle with all the criticism that comes her way, but also with her ability to see through the surface of the crits to find what's useful for
her. I've learned a lot from watching her revise--especially in the case of this poem.
Great job, Anonymous!
--CS