Vows

[QDeathstar]

After a man beats a woman,
he cannot see his own shame
hidden within his closed fist.
When he enters the house,
predetermined, front door I think that predetermined doesn't really work here, I'm left wondering what he has already decided he will do? Are you saying domestic violence is premeditated? Perhaps you want predestined?
creaking like his own mother’s
faint and past pleading voice,
he listens to their bedsprings’ jangle
and feels compelled to drag
the woman, pulling her before the deep
witness of a mirror where he sees
his father’s face, a pig’s head,
confessing like Thomas what he can’t
believe he's done, not even
after his fingers probe
his own baffling wounds.probe is a strange word choice for me, I guess I know what your looking for but the last two lines are boring to me.

It's difficult to go through this poem line by line, there's nothing that stands out glaringly wrong or a poor word choice. But there's nothing particularly inspiring or interesting here. I find the poem kind of droll.