# Elizabeth Schmelzenbach

## Posts

### 1. [Inspired by Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman](https://schmelzp.substack.com/p/inspired-by-hendrik-nicolaas-werkman)
**Date:** Jun 23, 2026 4:41 PM  
*I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.*  
*— Theodore Roethke*

### 2. [Johannes Reekers II (1824–1895)](https://schmelzp.substack.com/p/inspired-by-johannes-reekers-ii)
*Johannes Reekers II (1824–1895) was a Dutch flower and still-life painter, the son of Johannes Reekers the Elder and brother of Hendrik Reekers.*