Sentence:  It was my initiation to war and the insane symphony war plays ; for what had happened on the common was only terror and flight ; but this grinning , broken <WSD>head</WSD> , not ten feet away from me , was the sharp definition of what my reality had become . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains