Kenzie Anne - Florentine Part 2 -11.11.21- Official

Fine del secondo movimento.

Kenzie thought of the figure on her canvas—the woman whose face she couldn’t show, whose name she couldn’t name. She thought of the kiss behind the marble column, the whisper, the way Matteo looked at her like she was already disappearing. Kenzie Anne - Florentine Part 2 -11.11.21-

“She chose love,” he said. “And she was erased. Not killed. Erased. Her paintings signed by her father. Her letters burned. Her name scratched off a tombstone in Santa Croce.” Fine del secondo movimento

“What happened to the last one?” she asked. “She chose love,” he said

Kenzie gestured to the canvas on the easel. It was a study of a woman’s back—spine like a rosary, shoulder blades like folded wings. The face was turned away, lost in shadow.

Outside, the bells of San Niccolò began to ring. St. Martin’s Day. The saint who cut his cloak in half for a beggar and later saw the beggar was Christ.