To do some stories justice, you must start at their end.The poetry collection Timeline of Us flips the entirety of an on-again-off-again, junior-year relationship onto its head. It encompasses the transitional stages of growth and decay through its back-turned depiction of a relationship fraught with misrecognition, miscommunication, and naivety that is so often present in teenage attempts to navigate love.Contentment and closure mark the beginning of this collection, and the following pages detail the raw, in-the-moment documentation of anger, severing of ties, troubled skepticism, and initial infatuation.