You don't know me. I burned all the snakeskin.

Marriage gave me the indescribable feeling of a new name,
a new house, a new job, a new hairstyle, a new wardrobe—
and the chance that, when I walk through a crowd,
no one I’ve known will recognize me.
But moving to a new state brought a different kind of feeling,
the indescribable certainty that out here,
no one could recognize me, even if they tried.