3-4 feet tall, wrinkled skin, broad mouth,
large light-reflected eyes, face like a frog,
body like a man.
None other than
the Loveland Frog.
Allegedly first seen in 1955
by a traveling salesman
driving through Loveland, Ohio.
Not one, but three of them.
Freaked out the salesman,
he sped away full speed.
In 1972 seen by a police officer
named Ray Shockley
on the side of a road called Miami Drive.
It stood up, leaped over a guardrail
and vanished.
A few sightings after that,
but nothing of late.
Has the Loveland frog moved on
to the greater Loveland in the sky?
Or has he gone undercover,
disdaining living a fishbowl life,
his privacy more important
than fleeting cryptid fame.
Bob Boyd