the firefang decomposers tend to lock up the grasses into a tight clumping mess as they grow throughout the pile. When this happens I take my pitch fork and stab it down into the pile in several directions in several orientations and it'll looses itself up to being turned more easily.

If you try and make sure when you add grass into the pile, you mix it with leaves a bit, this might not be as big a deal come spring.

You mention it being really wet. Perhaps in the fall when you put your pile to bed for winter, you could cover it over with something that will help shed water off of it a bit so it isn't so soggy in spring. I sometimes us a big piece of cardboard weighted down to keep it from blowing away.

Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden

I've thought of that. We had a ton of snow this winter, which probably made this worse. I should consider covering it, though.

I've somehow got to come up with a bunch of carbons now. Heh. Just powerraked the yard and put all the clippings and the few leaves left on the pile.

If you shred paper, it is a good brown. I just love shredding junk mail and thin cardboard boxes like cereal boxes. you can also shred newspaper if you have some.
laurie

"the firefang decomposers tend to lock up the grasses"

Ok, I'll bite. What does that mean?

The bacteria that would digest your material need air to function and the amount of water you allow to build up displaces that air so they cannot function. You do need to break up that pile and allow it to dry out some and when you put the pile back together mix it more. In the future mix the grass clippings with other materials to keep them from clumping together.
Since this is a lot of, unnecesary, work figure out a way to put a cover on your compost pile to keep that excess water out of the mix.