Near the horizon
rain hits ground
in bed it sounds like battered vegetables
frying in a skillet .

Last summer when my mom told me
on a rainy day
that the rain instills in her a craving of buchimgae
I asked why?

"the sound. it sounds like buchimgae frying in a pan."

I listened and for the...

It's a Korean tradition to make seafood pancakes -- or buchimgae-- when it rains. There's two reasons for this. First is audible, the sizzling in the oiled pan sounds eerily like rain. Second is the cool calm that follows on a rainy day.

buchimgae on a cool, rainy afternoon....