I turned my pile saturday and found a mushroom growing in it. Your compost is working. Under your mushroom is the mycelium, a network of hyphae, extremely fine threads, hard at work breaking things into smaller and samller pieces. The mushroom you see is the fruiting body. It produces spores for future composts.
Mushrooms are good.
We are preparing to treat our vegetable garden soil with mushroom compost. Earlier you mentionned red clover roots were allelopathic. I occasionally see red clover suggested as a nitrogen-fixing cover crop. Right now, for instance, I'm looking at Mellinger's 1999 Garden Catalog. Provides nitrogen for your soil.