The poem reads like a slow look at a painting, as its subtitle suggests: oil on canvas, credited to Berthe Morisot with the date 2019. The speaker moves through the scene the way an eye might, starting with the white church and its steeple, then the white tent, the colorful guests, and the green all around. Then the view shifts to the middle ground, where children and two yellow dogs run about, and to the front, where five adults play bocce.
The speaker never says "I feel," and that restraint is part of the effect. The feeling comes through what gets noticed: bright boots, long shadows, a child's game. The mood is calm and warm, a late-day peace. Notably, the actual wedding is barely shown. We see the setting and the guests relaxing instead. The last image, a robin starting to sing deep in the trees, shifts from sight to sound and quietly ends the scene on a note of hope.