I liked this. I couldn't anticipate where it was going, but I felt guided along the way. Even with changes in time and place, your voice remains consistent.
The canvas tent is iced with October. (I like the use of October to imply the cold and the time)
Winds from Canada find their way
under flaps, into the skin of all of us. ("us all" has better rhythmic qualities)
The radio receives one station.
On Sundays one man in a Russian hat (I like the use of "one" to imply isolation as you describe the few exceptions to it.)
delivers mail. I work all day
to keep the food from spoiling;
no one talks about the war between us
going on in my head. (Perhaps a comma? Is the war really between you, going on in your head, both?)
I send myself letters sometimes,
mostly about myself, or
of missingness. Lying
in the cold, looking at the one post ("missingness"- good choice)
which holds this whole place up, I recall
when—to defy my parents—I slept outside
baled in a flannel sleeping bag.
(In the night there’s no peripheral vision,
just dark and the thought
everything has ended (Good aside)
When I was cold enough to go back
inside I saw my parents on the couch
watching the evening news.
My bed was the warmest it's ever been (it had been)
and when I called you, your voice
was the most comforting thing in the world. (A bit of a hyperbole, but since the rest avoided the treacly, I think it works)
Not much to change. Hope this review helped anyway.
